Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... enjoyment . In the distribution of the seasons , care seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this system of equivalents . To an admirer of Nature , it is certainly melancholy to be no longer able to see ...
... enjoyment . In the distribution of the seasons , care seems to have been taken that mankind should have the full benefit of this system of equivalents . To an admirer of Nature , it is certainly melancholy to be no longer able to see ...
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... enjoyment which is visibly inculcated by Nature : the south wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the sunny air their renovated being , new ...
... enjoyment which is visibly inculcated by Nature : the south wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the sunny air their renovated being , new ...
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... enjoyment . Let us 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 ...
... enjoyment . Let us 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 ...
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... enjoyment to existence , he may exchange it for an eternal one , -dares , in the blindness of ingratitude , to murmur at his fate ! It only depends upon himself to be a demi - god , and to convert the world into an elysium . " Let us ...
... enjoyment to existence , he may exchange it for an eternal one , -dares , in the blindness of ingratitude , to murmur at his fate ! It only depends upon himself to be a demi - god , and to convert the world into an elysium . " Let us ...
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... enjoyment really adapted to her taste , in which her imagined gentility does not deter her from indulging . What a contrast was the accomplished , the fasci- nating Fanny with her lovely features irra- diated with innocent hilarity ...
... enjoyment really adapted to her taste , in which her imagined gentility does not deter her from indulging . What a contrast was the accomplished , the fasci- nating Fanny with her lovely features irra- diated with innocent hilarity ...
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