Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... plants visibly , " as the author of The Months elegantly observes , " like a lady at her window . " We want no miraculous handwriting on the wall , for he who can fail to perceive it on the earth in the punctual recur- rence of this ...
... plants visibly , " as the author of The Months elegantly observes , " like a lady at her window . " We want no miraculous handwriting on the wall , for he who can fail to perceive it on the earth in the punctual recur- rence of this ...
Page 19
... plants , and that species of sun - flower which invariably turns to the rising luminary . Nabobs form a capital compost for hepatica , liver - wort , spleen - wort , hips , and pine ; and from those who had three or four stars at the ...
... plants , and that species of sun - flower which invariably turns to the rising luminary . Nabobs form a capital compost for hepatica , liver - wort , spleen - wort , hips , and pine ; and from those who had three or four stars at the ...
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... plants there is nothing better than a layer of novel - readers , and you may use up the first bad author that you can disinter for all the poppies you may require . Coffee - house waiters will keep you supplied in cummin ; chronologists ...
... plants there is nothing better than a layer of novel - readers , and you may use up the first bad author that you can disinter for all the poppies you may require . Coffee - house waiters will keep you supplied in cummin ; chronologists ...
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... plant . Dr. Johnson , as Mrs. Thrale knew to her cost , was an almost insatiable tea - bibber , and praised that sa- lutiferous potation with as much cordiality as he drank it . Bontikoe , a Dutch physician , considers it a universal ...
... plant . Dr. Johnson , as Mrs. Thrale knew to her cost , was an almost insatiable tea - bibber , and praised that sa- lutiferous potation with as much cordiality as he drank it . Bontikoe , a Dutch physician , considers it a universal ...
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... plant . Let us try- Fill the Tea - pot , fill ! Round my rosy temples twine A Tea - leaf wreath , that I may sing Like the conquering God of wine . When the whole East proclaim'd him king , When to the sky , with music ringing , Shouts ...
... plant . Let us try- Fill the Tea - pot , fill ! Round my rosy temples twine A Tea - leaf wreath , that I may sing Like the conquering God of wine . When the whole East proclaim'd him king , When to the sky , with music ringing , Shouts ...
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