Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... Lips and Kissing 227 To a Log of Wood upon the Fire 237 The World 239 The First of March 249 Peter Pindarics . The Milkmaid and the Banker 250 The Farmer's Wife and the Gascon 251 The Eloquence of Eyes 254 The Lawyer and the Chimney ...
... Lips and Kissing 227 To a Log of Wood upon the Fire 237 The World 239 The First of March 249 Peter Pindarics . The Milkmaid and the Banker 250 The Farmer's Wife and the Gascon 251 The Eloquence of Eyes 254 The Lawyer and the Chimney ...
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... lips with all that frankness of innocent enjoyment which is visibly inculcated by Nature : the south wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the ...
... lips with all that frankness of innocent enjoyment which is visibly inculcated by Nature : the south wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the ...
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... lips she stirr'd , But their music was not heard : Prone she fell upon her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ! Methought a wailful cry was uttered by the whole assemblage , followed by a sad and strange funereal mu- sic , which ...
... lips she stirr'd , But their music was not heard : Prone she fell upon her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ! Methought a wailful cry was uttered by the whole assemblage , followed by a sad and strange funereal mu- sic , which ...
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... lip ; between hatred in the bosom , and compliments from the tongue : she has exposed the general inconsistency between professions and feelings , and the confusion with which most indivi- duals would be covered , could they be aware ...
... lip ; between hatred in the bosom , and compliments from the tongue : she has exposed the general inconsistency between professions and feelings , and the confusion with which most indivi- duals would be covered , could they be aware ...
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... lips and chatt'ring teeth ; But cry'd at last , with desperate shout , " Satan , avaunt ! -I've found thee out . " Meanwhile , the Smuggler , who had shouted At finding all the blankets gone , Though for a little while he doubted The ...
... lips and chatt'ring teeth ; But cry'd at last , with desperate shout , " Satan , avaunt ! -I've found thee out . " Meanwhile , the Smuggler , who had shouted At finding all the blankets gone , Though for a little while he doubted The ...
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