Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot conjure them up to his mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the words , may depend upon it that he is no conjurer . It is ...
... dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot conjure them up to his mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the words , may depend upon it that he is no conjurer . It is ...
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... lute - resounding waves . " But when the fields around me are covered with snow , and fogs and darkness are upon the land , I exclaim with Milton , " so much the rather thou , shine inward , 4 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... lute - resounding waves . " But when the fields around me are covered with snow , and fogs and darkness are upon the land , I exclaim with Milton , " so much the rather thou , shine inward , 4 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... darkness of nonentity and giving thee so much ; for bestowing upon thee three or four score years of pleasant existence , and making it de- pendent upon thyself whether thou shalt exchange it for an eternity of beatitude ? Go - and ...
... darkness of nonentity and giving thee so much ; for bestowing upon thee three or four score years of pleasant existence , and making it de- pendent upon thyself whether thou shalt exchange it for an eternity of beatitude ? Go - and ...
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... dark , rather than be enlightened into misery . We have all our little foibles of self - love , our vanities of egotism , our illusions and inflations which may sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high , and enjoy ...
... dark , rather than be enlightened into misery . We have all our little foibles of self - love , our vanities of egotism , our illusions and inflations which may sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high , and enjoy ...
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... dark bodings in our ear , and make us think unfavour- ably , although , perchance , too truly , of our species ! Avaunt ! ye ravens , who would tell us that love is a dream , and friendship a romance ; that all the glitter- ing joys of ...
... dark bodings in our ear , and make us think unfavour- ably , although , perchance , too truly , of our species ! Avaunt ! ye ravens , who would tell us that love is a dream , and friendship a romance ; that all the glitter- ing joys of ...
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