Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... less true , and illustrates that beneficent provision of Nature , which , operating in various ways , compensates the poor for their apparent privations , converts the abused luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus ...
... less true , and illustrates that beneficent provision of Nature , which , operating in various ways , compensates the poor for their apparent privations , converts the abused luxuries of the rich into severe correctives , and thus ...
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... less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot conjure them up to his mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the ...
... less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains , he who cannot conjure them up to his mind's eye with all their garniture and glory , as glibly as he can pronounce the ...
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... less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the second , is ...
... less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the second , is ...
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... less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic writings , how unceasingly are we reminded of the frailness ...
... less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic writings , how unceasingly are we reminded of the frailness ...
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... less you must like it . " Pardon me , cour- teous reader . Some sapient critic , in noticing Hunt's story of Rimini , ( which with all the faults of its last canto is a beautiful and interesting poem , ) remarks tauntingly that we may ...
... less you must like it . " Pardon me , cour- teous reader . Some sapient critic , in noticing Hunt's story of Rimini , ( which with all the faults of its last canto is a beautiful and interesting poem , ) remarks tauntingly that we may ...
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