Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 12
... honour upon this scale , and to consider this distinction as conferring upon it a much better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both ...
... honour upon this scale , and to consider this distinction as conferring upon it a much better claim to the title of the North- ern Athens , than the fancied resemblance between the Calton Hill and the Acropolis . Farther north , both ...
Page 71
... honours . Heavens ! how would it vary from their own embla- zoned parchment and vellum records ! What confu- sion of succession - what scandal thrown upon Lady Barbaras and Lady Bridgets , all immaculate in their time - what heraldic ...
... honours . Heavens ! how would it vary from their own embla- zoned parchment and vellum records ! What confu- sion of succession - what scandal thrown upon Lady Barbaras and Lady Bridgets , all immaculate in their time - what heraldic ...
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... honour to his titles ; not him whose titles are his honour ! But if an Englishman be such a heterogeneous compound as to his personal composition , he has the consolation of knowing that his language is , at least , equally confused and ...
... honour to his titles ; not him whose titles are his honour ! But if an Englishman be such a heterogeneous compound as to his personal composition , he has the consolation of knowing that his language is , at least , equally confused and ...
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... honour to the quinquennial festival of Apollo , now celebrating at Delos . See ! in every direction the green ocean is studded with the white sails of barks ( like daisies in the grass ) hastening to the ceremony , from Attica , Boeotia ...
... honour to the quinquennial festival of Apollo , now celebrating at Delos . See ! in every direction the green ocean is studded with the white sails of barks ( like daisies in the grass ) hastening to the ceremony , from Attica , Boeotia ...
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... honours , as becoming to it as the stars , crosses , and ribbons of a successful general , are tro- phies of past victories , the colours won iu tavern- campaigns . They recal to us the clatter of knives , the slaughter of turtle , the ...
... honours , as becoming to it as the stars , crosses , and ribbons of a successful general , are tro- phies of past victories , the colours won iu tavern- campaigns . They recal to us the clatter of knives , the slaughter of turtle , the ...
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