Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... sides . There is no great hardship in that : but our minds are driven in - doors also , they are compelled to look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and I do contend that this is the unlocking of a more glorious mental ...
... sides . There is no great hardship in that : but our minds are driven in - doors also , they are compelled to look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and I do contend that this is the unlocking of a more glorious mental ...
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... side , lo ! the curtain is drawn up , and all the magnificent scenery of classic realms and favoured skies bursts upon my vision , with an overpowering splendour . Talk not to me of the inspiration and rapture dif- fused around ...
... side , lo ! the curtain is drawn up , and all the magnificent scenery of classic realms and favoured skies bursts upon my vision , with an overpowering splendour . Talk not to me of the inspiration and rapture dif- fused around ...
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... side of the opening , singing , in a sort of measured chant , alternate stanzas from the Orlando Furioso . They had chosen that part of the 8th book , where Angelica is carried , by magic art , into a desolate island ; and in the pride ...
... side of the opening , singing , in a sort of measured chant , alternate stanzas from the Orlando Furioso . They had chosen that part of the 8th book , where Angelica is carried , by magic art , into a desolate island ; and in the pride ...
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... side landscape over that of the open fields . No sooner had I retrimmed my lamp , rendered doubly necessary by the extinction of my sun and moon ; composed myself afresh in my arm - chair , and fixed my eyes steadfastly upon the fire ...
... side landscape over that of the open fields . No sooner had I retrimmed my lamp , rendered doubly necessary by the extinction of my sun and moon ; composed myself afresh in my arm - chair , and fixed my eyes steadfastly upon the fire ...
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... to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing that nobody WINTER . 11.
... to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence the two distinguishing traits of his character - mental activity and domestic virtue . It is astonishing that nobody WINTER . 11.
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