Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny Bulls we meet In every sea - port town abroad , Prepared to take and give offence , Partly , perhaps , because ...
... friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny Bulls we meet In every sea - port town abroad , Prepared to take and give offence , Partly , perhaps , because ...
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... friend- ship and domestic bliss , every one of these is an in- exhaustible source of joy , whose runnels and streamlets it would require a separate essay to specify ; and yet the happy creature who combines them all with the keen though ...
... friend- ship and domestic bliss , every one of these is an in- exhaustible source of joy , whose runnels and streamlets it would require a separate essay to specify ; and yet the happy creature who combines them all with the keen though ...
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... friend Giulio ? " He listens patiently to all my calamities , but it is that he may match every one with a greater of his own . Has the hail injured my crops this year , after two or three words of hasty condolence he in- forms me that ...
... friend Giulio ? " He listens patiently to all my calamities , but it is that he may match every one with a greater of his own . Has the hail injured my crops this year , after two or three words of hasty condolence he in- forms me that ...
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... friend than Plato ; it is because she is great , and in some respects as terrible as great , that I wish her not to ... friendship a romance ; that all the glitter- ing joys of life are splendid lies , while all its miseries are dark ...
... friend than Plato ; it is because she is great , and in some respects as terrible as great , that I wish her not to ... friendship a romance ; that all the glitter- ing joys of life are splendid lies , while all its miseries are dark ...
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... friend : its heart soon gets cold , it ceases to pour forth its consolations with any warmth of feeling , and so spoils our tea that it may gratify our sight . It is hallowed by no fire - side reminiscences , fit only for some ...
... friend : its heart soon gets cold , it ceases to pour forth its consolations with any warmth of feeling , and so spoils our tea that it may gratify our sight . It is hallowed by no fire - side reminiscences , fit only for some ...
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