Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... longer able to see the lusty green boughs wrest- ling with the wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn ...
... longer able to see the lusty green boughs wrest- ling with the wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn ...
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... longer existence , that it might just get one peep at the sun . Behind me the tufted tops of the chesnut woods began to be faintly illumined with the ray ; while the spot where I stood , and the rest of the vale , were still enveloped ...
... longer existence , that it might just get one peep at the sun . Behind me the tufted tops of the chesnut woods began to be faintly illumined with the ray ; while the spot where I stood , and the rest of the vale , were still enveloped ...
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... longer his mishap , - Move , oh move him from thy lap ; Braid no more his golden locks , All dishevell❜d by the rocks , And his face of marble hue With thy tears no more bedew . All our fairy troops shall hover Round the hearse that ...
... longer his mishap , - Move , oh move him from thy lap ; Braid no more his golden locks , All dishevell❜d by the rocks , And his face of marble hue With thy tears no more bedew . All our fairy troops shall hover Round the hearse that ...
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... longer duration ? If thou accusest heaven for not giving thee more , whom art thou to thank for calling thee out of the dumb darkness of nonentity and giving thee so much ; for bestowing upon thee three or four score years of pleasant ...
... longer duration ? If thou accusest heaven for not giving thee more , whom art thou to thank for calling thee out of the dumb darkness of nonentity and giving thee so much ; for bestowing upon thee three or four score years of pleasant ...
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... longer spells my heart may fetter , That I may feed , not quench my flame , By bumper - toasts to every letter . And so on . As I'm an honest man , and a sober , I think these verses , as flowing , bibulous , and hilarious as any that ...
... longer spells my heart may fetter , That I may feed , not quench my flame , By bumper - toasts to every letter . And so on . As I'm an honest man , and a sober , I think these verses , as flowing , bibulous , and hilarious as any that ...
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