Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... 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 , he who cannot conjure them up to ...
... 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 , he who cannot conjure them up to ...
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... possessing the best spirits , even to an occasional degree of playfulness and puerility . Minds capable of the greatest things can enjoy the most trivial , as the elephant's trunk can knock down A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT . 31.
... possessing the best spirits , even to an occasional degree of playfulness and puerility . Minds capable of the greatest things can enjoy the most trivial , as the elephant's trunk can knock down A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT . 31.
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... possessing the deepest of all interests , and excit- ing the pleasantest or the sublimest of all sensations : but if , in our busy and mischievous anxiety for ferret- ing out the real truth , we insist upon going behind the scenes , we ...
... possessing the deepest of all interests , and excit- ing the pleasantest or the sublimest of all sensations : but if , in our busy and mischievous anxiety for ferret- ing out the real truth , we insist upon going behind the scenes , we ...
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... possess'd , in days of old , A thriving set of literati , Or men of letters , turning all to gold : - The standard works they made less weighty By new abridgments - took abundant Pains their roughnesses to polish , And plied their ...
... possess'd , in days of old , A thriving set of literati , Or men of letters , turning all to gold : - The standard works they made less weighty By new abridgments - took abundant Pains their roughnesses to polish , And plied their ...
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... possesses a sect of Jumpers , who , seeming to imagine that he who leaps highest must be nearest to Heaven , solem- nize their meetings by jumping like kangaroos , and justify themselves very conclusively from Scripture , because ...
... possesses a sect of Jumpers , who , seeming to imagine that he who leaps highest must be nearest to Heaven , solem- nize their meetings by jumping like kangaroos , and justify themselves very conclusively from Scripture , because ...
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