Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... face of heaven are perpetually hidden from us by a thick veil of fog ;; when the poached and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt ...
... face of heaven are perpetually hidden from us by a thick veil of fog ;; when the poached and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt ...
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... face seemed to be lighted up with a conscious smile , as if her mighty heart thrilled with complacent joy at the universal happiness she was diffusing . - A smoky shower , to use one of Chaucer's picturesque words , instead of ...
... face seemed to be lighted up with a conscious smile , as if her mighty heart thrilled with complacent joy at the universal happiness she was diffusing . - A smoky shower , to use one of Chaucer's picturesque words , instead of ...
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... landed with a watering party from the American brig Washington upon the remote Island of Pitcairn , where the mutineers of the Bounty have establised a colony of English faces , and FITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 21 Pitcairn's Island.
... landed with a watering party from the American brig Washington upon the remote Island of Pitcairn , where the mutineers of the Bounty have establised a colony of English faces , and FITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 21 Pitcairn's Island.
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... faces , and awakened echoes of the English tongue , amid the un- explored solitudes of the great Pacific Ocean . To me as a Briton every thing I beheld was intensely in- teresting ; -the recognised countenances of my coun- try , as ...
... faces , and awakened echoes of the English tongue , amid the un- explored solitudes of the great Pacific Ocean . To me as a Briton every thing I beheld was intensely in- teresting ; -the recognised countenances of my coun- try , as ...
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... face of marble hue With thy tears no more bedew . All our fairy troops shall hover Round the hearse that bears thy lover ,. And his bright remains shall be Sepulchred right royally . " But the widowed Queen of Shadows ejaculated in a ...
... face of marble hue With thy tears no more bedew . All our fairy troops shall hover Round the hearse that bears thy lover ,. And his bright remains shall be Sepulchred right royally . " But the widowed Queen of Shadows ejaculated in a ...
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