Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... hear some captious reader ex- claim- " What is the value , after all , of your ideal landscape ? it is a picture of nothing ; and the more it is like , the less you must like it . " Pardon me , cour- teous reader . Some sapient critic ...
... hear some captious reader ex- claim- " What is the value , after all , of your ideal landscape ? it is a picture of nothing ; and the more it is like , the less you must like it . " Pardon me , cour- teous reader . Some sapient critic ...
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... Hear the soft winds above me flying , With all the wanton boughs dispute , And the more tuneful birds to both replying ; Nor be myself , too , mute . " It is exactly the same in writing . I begin with one intention , and end with ...
... Hear the soft winds above me flying , With all the wanton boughs dispute , And the more tuneful birds to both replying ; Nor be myself , too , mute . " It is exactly the same in writing . I begin with one intention , and end with ...
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... hear , as well as to see double ; and that the only good · hit he ever made at a tea - table , was at a Newmarket party , when incautiously burning his fingers by tak- ing up the toast from the fire , and breaking the plate as he let it ...
... hear , as well as to see double ; and that the only good · hit he ever made at a tea - table , was at a Newmarket party , when incautiously burning his fingers by tak- ing up the toast from the fire , and breaking the plate as he let it ...
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... MY KETTLE ! You , when you ' re chafed , but sing the more ; And when just ready to boil o'er , In silent steam your passions soar , — MY KETTLE ! 1 To hear their strains , one needs must bear D 2 ADDRESS TO MY KETTLE . 51.
... MY KETTLE ! You , when you ' re chafed , but sing the more ; And when just ready to boil o'er , In silent steam your passions soar , — MY KETTLE ! 1 To hear their strains , one needs must bear D 2 ADDRESS TO MY KETTLE . 51.
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... hear their strains , one needs must bear Late hours , noise , lassitude , hot air , And dissipation's dangers share , — MY KETTLE ! But thine , my nightly Philomel , — Thine is a voice whose magic spell , Like Prospero's can tempests ...
... hear their strains , one needs must bear Late hours , noise , lassitude , hot air , And dissipation's dangers share , — MY KETTLE ! But thine , my nightly Philomel , — Thine is a voice whose magic spell , Like Prospero's can tempests ...
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