Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... fancy who does not possess a sun and moon obedient to his own will , which he can order to arise with much less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot ...
... fancy who does not possess a sun and moon obedient to his own will , which he can order to arise with much less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot ...
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... fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is incapable of improvement , it must be admitted that combination and invention are pre- ferable to mere accuracy of copying . As well might it be objected ...
... fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is incapable of improvement , it must be admitted that combination and invention are pre- ferable to mere accuracy of copying . As well might it be objected ...
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... fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came near him , although he were young and fat , wanted neither food nor water ; nor did the servant imagine what ...
... fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came near him , although he were young and fat , wanted neither food nor water ; nor did the servant imagine what ...
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... Fancy , or the Whitfield Reel . I abhor that atrocious and impious doctrine , that France and England are natural enemies , as if God Almighty had made us only to cut one another's throats ; and yet I must say that I hate the French ...
... Fancy , or the Whitfield Reel . I abhor that atrocious and impious doctrine , that France and England are natural enemies , as if God Almighty had made us only to cut one another's throats ; and yet I must say that I hate the French ...
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... fancy revel in the rich and sunny luxuriance of Grecian landscape , awakening from their long sleep all the beautiful realities and classical fictions connected with the glorious god of the Sun , the Apollo of the poets , the patron ...
... fancy revel in the rich and sunny luxuriance of Grecian landscape , awakening from their long sleep all the beautiful realities and classical fictions connected with the glorious god of the Sun , the Apollo of the poets , the patron ...
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