Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... night that I enjoyed my first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great ...
... night that I enjoyed my first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great ...
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... Night's Dream , having fallen from my hand upon my pointer's head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality ...
... Night's Dream , having fallen from my hand upon my pointer's head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality ...
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... night . Oh , whither are fled those echoes dread , As the host hurraed , and the chargers neigh'd , And the cannon roar'd , and the trumpets bray'd ? — Stifled is all this living breath , And hush'd they lie in the sleep of death . They ...
... night . Oh , whither are fled those echoes dread , As the host hurraed , and the chargers neigh'd , And the cannon roar'd , and the trumpets bray'd ? — Stifled is all this living breath , And hush'd they lie in the sleep of death . They ...
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... night , When Samuel Jinkins , call'd by some The Reverend , ( tho ' I doubt his right , ) Reach'd Yarmouth's town , induced to come By ardour in the cause of Zion , And housed him at the Golden Lion . His chamber held another bed , But ...
... night , When Samuel Jinkins , call'd by some The Reverend , ( tho ' I doubt his right , ) Reach'd Yarmouth's town , induced to come By ardour in the cause of Zion , And housed him at the Golden Lion . His chamber held another bed , But ...
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... night is near— Hark ! ' tis the hollow midnight bell , Whose echoes , fraught with solemn fear , Far o'er the land and ocean swell . The sentry , on his lonely post , Starts , and bethinks him of a ghost ; Lists , eager for the distant ...
... night is near— Hark ! ' tis the hollow midnight bell , Whose echoes , fraught with solemn fear , Far o'er the land and ocean swell . The sentry , on his lonely post , Starts , and bethinks him of a ghost ; Lists , eager for the distant ...
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