Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... perpetually hidden from us by a thick veil of fog ;; when the poached and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their ...
... perpetually hidden from us by a thick veil of fog ;; when the poached and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their ...
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... perpetually interchanging substances and natures without any annihilation of either . With all due deference to Shakspeare , " Imperial Cæsar dead and turned to clay " might be converted to nobler purposes than those which Hamlet has ...
... perpetually interchanging substances and natures without any annihilation of either . With all due deference to Shakspeare , " Imperial Cæsar dead and turned to clay " might be converted to nobler purposes than those which Hamlet has ...
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... perpetually streaming into us through the eye , to whose sensations the green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled , although perpetually ...
... perpetually streaming into us through the eye , to whose sensations the green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled , although perpetually ...
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... perpetually thrust up the nostrils with a vo- racious pig - like snort , it is a practice as disgusting to the beholders as I believe it to be injurious to the of- fender . The nose is the emunctory of the brain , and when its functions ...
... perpetually thrust up the nostrils with a vo- racious pig - like snort , it is a practice as disgusting to the beholders as I believe it to be injurious to the of- fender . The nose is the emunctory of the brain , and when its functions ...
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... perpetually at work ; you can hardly sleep from the fear of losing what you have got ; and so far from your cravings being appeased by plenty , you are everlastingly hun- gering and thirsting for more . There you are mistaken ; for as ...
... perpetually at work ; you can hardly sleep from the fear of losing what you have got ; and so far from your cravings being appeased by plenty , you are everlastingly hun- gering and thirsting for more . There you are mistaken ; for as ...
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