Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... leaves are lying at their feet , buried in a winding - sheet of snow . There is a pain- ful sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy ...
... leaves are lying at their feet , buried in a winding - sheet of snow . There is a pain- ful sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy ...
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... leaves and flowers ; wine is simply bottled sunshine and showers ; corruption puts on incorruption , and even yonder dunghill , which has already passed through various stages of incarnation , is destined to others in the ceaseless ...
... leaves and flowers ; wine is simply bottled sunshine and showers ; corruption puts on incorruption , and even yonder dunghill , which has already passed through various stages of incarnation , is destined to others in the ceaseless ...
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... Leaf of lily from the lake : - Silver shell of nautilus Shall his coffin be - and thus Will we see him tomb'd afar In some silent cave of spar , Where a glow - worm in an urn Of chrystal for a lamp shall burn . His toll - bell shall the ...
... Leaf of lily from the lake : - Silver shell of nautilus Shall his coffin be - and thus Will we see him tomb'd afar In some silent cave of spar , Where a glow - worm in an urn Of chrystal for a lamp shall burn . His toll - bell shall the ...
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... leaves ; and our fields must nourish no types of that blooming fruit which flourished upon the borders of the Dead Sea . Truth declares the existence of evil , moral and physical ; we must , there- fore , use no disguises to render vice ...
... leaves ; and our fields must nourish no types of that blooming fruit which flourished upon the borders of the Dead Sea . Truth declares the existence of evil , moral and physical ; we must , there- fore , use no disguises to render vice ...
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