Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and the ...
... falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and the ...
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... 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'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ...
... 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'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ...
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... the soul , he would not have been very remote from the truth ; for he might have drawn from Nature abundant analogy for his * Shelley's Adonais . theory . The rains that fall to reascend in sap 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... the soul , he would not have been very remote from the truth ; for he might have drawn from Nature abundant analogy for his * Shelley's Adonais . theory . The rains that fall to reascend in sap 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... fall to reascend in sap are but so much future leaves and flowers ; wine is simply bottled sunshine and showers ; corruption puts on incorruption , and even yonder dunghill , which has already passed through various stages of ...
... fall to reascend in sap are but so much future leaves and flowers ; wine is simply bottled sunshine and showers ; corruption puts on incorruption , and even yonder dunghill , which has already passed through various stages of ...
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... sickly suspirations plays the fool to make us cry , and in the lack of substantial sorrows , or the insufficiency of those that actually fall to his But share , sets his perverted wits to work in coining 34 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... sickly suspirations plays the fool to make us cry , and in the lack of substantial sorrows , or the insufficiency of those that actually fall to his But share , sets his perverted wits to work in coining 34 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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