Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As the traveller , when he beheld the Coliseum in ruins , remarked that there was nothing stable and immutable at Rome except the river , which had been ...
... period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As the traveller , when he beheld the Coliseum in ruins , remarked that there was nothing stable and immutable at Rome except the river , which had been ...
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... period of the decline and fall . So far , therefore , from mi- litating against my theory , they afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the ...
... period of the decline and fall . So far , therefore , from mi- litating against my theory , they afford a beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the ...
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... is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
... is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
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... period of the first invasion : - - Half a million of heroes - I saw them all : O God ! ' twas a sight of awful delight To gaze on that army , the glory of Gaul , As it roll'd in its fierceness of beauty forth , Like a glittering torrent ...
... period of the first invasion : - - Half a million of heroes - I saw them all : O God ! ' twas a sight of awful delight To gaze on that army , the glory of Gaul , As it roll'd in its fierceness of beauty forth , Like a glittering torrent ...
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... periods , upon any given subject , none would present a more contradictory estimate , than the harmless recreation of dancing . For some thousand of years , in the early stages of the 58 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . On Dancing.
... periods , upon any given subject , none would present a more contradictory estimate , than the harmless recreation of dancing . For some thousand of years , in the early stages of the 58 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . On Dancing.
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