Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... light- ness may keep them awhile from sinking , as straws and bubbles will float upon those waters of oblivion , wherein things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is ...
... light- ness may keep them awhile from sinking , as straws and bubbles will float upon those waters of oblivion , wherein things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is ...
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... light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes , without assisting them to see . Well , I admit that we must betake ourselves , in - doors , to ...
... light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes , without assisting them to see . Well , I admit that we must betake ourselves , in - doors , to ...
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... light divine ; " and , betaking myself to my fire - side , lo ! the curtain is drawn up , and all the magnificent scenery of classic realms and favoured skies bursts upon my vision , with an overpowering splendour . Talk not to me of ...
... light divine ; " and , betaking myself to my fire - side , lo ! the curtain is drawn up , and all the magnificent scenery of classic realms and favoured skies bursts upon my vision , with an overpowering splendour . Talk not to me of ...
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... light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the second , is Hyperion to a Satyr . Now mark the advantages of the fire - side landscape over that of the open fields . No ...
... light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the second , is Hyperion to a Satyr . Now mark the advantages of the fire - side landscape over that of the open fields . No ...
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... light to the rosy flushes and mellow purple of evening . While I was yet gazing , another and more silvery light seemed to steal across the heavens ; and turning to the opposite quarter , I beheld the full moon ascending with solemn ...
... light to the rosy flushes and mellow purple of evening . While I was yet gazing , another and more silvery light seemed to steal across the heavens ; and turning to the opposite quarter , I beheld the full moon ascending with solemn ...
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