Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 18
... late is no fat and filthy compost , but a curious and cleanly powder . Very few are probably aware that there is every year a considerable importation of bones from the Continent , which are crushed and used for manure ; many an English ...
... late is no fat and filthy compost , but a curious and cleanly powder . Very few are probably aware that there is every year a considerable importation of bones from the Continent , which are crushed and used for manure ; many an English ...
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... late sphere with no other accompaniments than his lantern and bush . Again the same symphony breathed around me , ap- pearing now to proceed from the little island , towards which I turned ; and as I beheld the hyacinths and snowdrops ...
... late sphere with no other accompaniments than his lantern and bush . Again the same symphony breathed around me , ap- pearing now to proceed from the little island , towards which I turned ; and as I beheld the hyacinths and snowdrops ...
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... late Emperor of China , Kien Long , of pious me- mory , composed a laudatory ode upon this fragrant product of his country , and a nephew of the writer's , a Guinea - pig on board one of the East India ships , having occasion to go to ...
... late Emperor of China , Kien Long , of pious me- mory , composed a laudatory ode upon this fragrant product of his country , and a nephew of the writer's , a Guinea - pig on board one of the East India ships , having occasion to go to ...
Page 52
... 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 quell , — MY KETTLE ! Peace , home ...
... 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 quell , — MY KETTLE ! Peace , home ...
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... late as the time of James I. legalising the observance of the usual May - games , Morris - dances , and dancing round the pole , even on a Sunday . Who but must feel his face flush with delight , if he suffer his ima- gination to run ...
... late as the time of James I. legalising the observance of the usual May - games , Morris - dances , and dancing round the pole , even on a Sunday . Who but must feel his face flush with delight , if he suffer his ima- gination to run ...
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