Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... become Italians until about the period of the decline and fall . So far , therefore , from mi- litating against my theory , they afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk ...
... become Italians until about the period of the decline and fall . So far , therefore , from mi- litating against my theory , they afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk ...
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... become renewed and blended under the vivifying and mysterious mouldings of her hand- " The leprous corpse , touch'd by this spirit tender , Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath ; Like incarnations of the stars when splendour Is ...
... become renewed and blended under the vivifying and mysterious mouldings of her hand- " The leprous corpse , touch'd by this spirit tender , Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath ; Like incarnations of the stars when splendour Is ...
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... become again incorpo- rated with men , beasts , or birds . Never proposing to myself any definite object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the ...
... become again incorpo- rated with men , beasts , or birds . Never proposing to myself any definite object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the ...
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... becomes what Champfort has described it to be : but if a man will wither up his soul by plunging into the moral desert , when he might be luxuriating in some smiling Oasis , let him not complain of that barrenness and suffering which is ...
... becomes what Champfort has described it to be : but if a man will wither up his soul by plunging into the moral desert , when he might be luxuriating in some smiling Oasis , let him not complain of that barrenness and suffering which is ...
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... become more copiously satu- rated with Souchong . Writers as well as utterers of good things will be spiritualised and clarified in their intellects , by substituting libations of tea for those of wine ; and , as to the averment of the ...
... become more copiously satu- rated with Souchong . Writers as well as utterers of good things will be spiritualised and clarified in their intellects , by substituting libations of tea for those of wine ; and , as to the averment of the ...
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