Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... imagination ! If we may snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , so may we snatch one beyond the reach of nature ; and if I could be transported in propriâ personâ to the scene of my Italian landscape , I have little doubt that I should ...
... imagination ! If we may snatch a grace beyond the reach of art , so may we snatch one beyond the reach of nature ; and if I could be transported in propriâ personâ to the scene of my Italian landscape , I have little doubt that I should ...
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... imagining upon these occasions that the visible arm of the Creator is outstretched from the heavens to till and cultivate the beautiful garden of the world , and so dispense suste- nance and delight , corn , fruit and flowers , to the ...
... imagining upon these occasions that the visible arm of the Creator is outstretched from the heavens to till and cultivate the beautiful garden of the world , and so dispense suste- nance and delight , corn , fruit and flowers , to the ...
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... to shoot up in my imagination , and deter- mined me to write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and agrestick , as if I were inditing for HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 17.
... to shoot up in my imagination , and deter- mined me to write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and agrestick , as if I were inditing for HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 17.
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... imagination that he might send his heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it adored . For myself , I could only dream that I was brought by that connecting stream of light into some sort of communication with the inhabitants of ...
... imagination that he might send his heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it adored . For myself , I could only dream that I was brought by that connecting stream of light into some sort of communication with the inhabitants of ...
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... imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT . " A fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came ...
... imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT . " A fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came ...
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