Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered hills and gay valleys of France , " or in Italy's " love ...
... hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered hills and gay valleys of France , " or in Italy's " love ...
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... hand - writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the general features of the country , embellished with such graces as his fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is ...
... hand - writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the general features of the country , embellished with such graces as his fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is ...
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... hand- " The leprous corpse , touch'd by this spirit tender , Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath ; Like incarnations of the stars when splendour Is changed to fragrance , they illumine death , And mock the merry worm that wakes ...
... hand- " The leprous corpse , touch'd by this spirit tender , Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath ; Like incarnations of the stars when splendour Is changed to fragrance , they illumine death , And mock the merry worm that wakes ...
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... hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ear , " - " Feel his heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in a water - lily ...
... hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ear , " - " Feel his heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in a water - lily ...
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... hand upon my pointer's head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A ...
... hand upon my pointer's head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A ...
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