Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... never shook such radiant inspiration from his locks as often gushes from the bars of a register- stove , when the Pierian " Wall's End or Russel's Main " has had its effulgence stimulated by a judici- ously applied poker ; and as to ...
... never shook such radiant inspiration from his locks as often gushes from the bars of a register- stove , when the Pierian " Wall's End or Russel's Main " has had its effulgence stimulated by a judici- ously applied poker ; and as to ...
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... never wandered beyond the confines of Highgate and Hampstead Heath . So much the better . He never undertook to give us a fac - simile of Nature's Italian hand - writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the ...
... never wandered beyond the confines of Highgate and Hampstead Heath . So much the better . He never undertook to give us a fac - simile of Nature's Italian hand - writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the ...
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... never having been in Hell , and with Milton for not having visited Paradise before he presumed to describe it . Away with these plodders with scissars and shears , who would clip the wings of imagination ! If we may snatch a grace ...
... never having been in Hell , and with Milton for not having visited Paradise before he presumed to describe it . Away with these plodders with scissars and shears , who would clip the wings of imagination ! If we may snatch a grace ...
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... Never proposing to myself any definite object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the ...
... Never proposing to myself any definite object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the ...
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... never been able to raise much ; but as to thyme , I have so large a supply , as the rea- der will easily perceive , that I am enabled to throw . it away ; and as he may not possibly be in a simi- lar predicament , I shall refer him for ...
... never been able to raise much ; but as to thyme , I have so large a supply , as the rea- der will easily perceive , that I am enabled to throw . it away ; and as he may not possibly be in a simi- lar predicament , I shall refer him for ...
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