Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... plea which most Scribblers , whatever may be the opinion of their Readers , will consider valid , -that he ventures upon the present Work at the solicitation of his Publisher . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. Page Pleasant Illusions WINTER The.
... plea which most Scribblers , whatever may be the opinion of their Readers , will consider valid , -that he ventures upon the present Work at the solicitation of his Publisher . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. Page Pleasant Illusions WINTER The.
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... consider my Christmas summer as having just set in . It was but last night that I enjoyed my first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the ...
... consider my Christmas summer as having just set in . It was but last night that I enjoyed my first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the ...
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... considering the dolce far niente as the summum bonum of existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through his senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the ...
... considering the dolce far niente as the summum bonum of existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through his senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the ...
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... consider this distinction as conferring upon it a much better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both mind and body must be expected to ...
... consider this distinction as conferring upon it a much better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both mind and body must be expected to ...
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... consider the fate of this unhappy creature in the abstract . We , whose lot is cast in the tem- perate regions of the earth , have at least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . We might have been freezing under the ...
... consider the fate of this unhappy creature in the abstract . We , whose lot is cast in the tem- perate regions of the earth , have at least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . We might have been freezing under the ...
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