Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... poor Tom , may very ap- propriately be hailed in the language of Satan , " Evil , be thou my good ! " The Spaniards have a proverb , that God sends the cold according to the clothes ; and though the callousness and hardihood acquired by ...
... poor Tom , may very ap- propriately be hailed in the language of Satan , " Evil , be thou my good ! " The Spaniards have a proverb , that God sends the cold according to the clothes ; and though the callousness and hardihood acquired by ...
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... poor and frozen fancy who does not possess a sun and moon obedient to his own will , which he can order to arise with much less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains ...
... poor and frozen fancy who does not possess a sun and moon obedient to his own will , which he can order to arise with much less difficulty than he can ring up his servants on these dark mornings ; and as to woods , lakes , and mountains ...
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... poor's - rates . Fortresses and bulwarks are not half so secure as my little mental domain , with no other protection than its ring - fence of evergreens . Is there a castle upon earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and ...
... poor's - rates . Fortresses and bulwarks are not half so secure as my little mental domain , with no other protection than its ring - fence of evergreens . Is there a castle upon earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and ...
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... poor to buy . ” Now surely this is a very sorry and pitiful way of playing the fool . A Merry - Andrew is despicable enough ; occasionally we laugh at him , now and then with him , and sometimes he fails to excite even a smile ; but his ...
... poor to buy . ” Now surely this is a very sorry and pitiful way of playing the fool . A Merry - Andrew is despicable enough ; occasionally we laugh at him , now and then with him , and sometimes he fails to excite even a smile ; but his ...
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... poor spend- thrifts ; against married couples , who wear the sem- blance of peace to the public , while they carry on a private domestic war ; and against every vice which pays Virtue the compliment of imitating her exterior . They must ...
... poor spend- thrifts ; against married couples , who wear the sem- blance of peace to the public , while they carry on a private domestic war ; and against every vice which pays Virtue the compliment of imitating her exterior . They must ...
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