Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is only following the example of other Periodicalists , whose collections have been not unfa- vourably received by the Public ...
... things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is only following the example of other Periodicalists , whose collections have been not unfa- vourably received by the Public ...
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... things , " without a deep and solemn conviction of the utter vanity and fugaciousness of all mortal grandeur ; without feeling that it was perishable as the reflec- tion of the world upon a bubble , insubstantial as the shadow of smoke ...
... things , " without a deep and solemn conviction of the utter vanity and fugaciousness of all mortal grandeur ; without feeling that it was perishable as the reflec- tion of the world upon a bubble , insubstantial as the shadow of smoke ...
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... thing as death . Nature's great business is reproduction ; and as she works always upon the same materials , spirit and matter , life and extinction , one organisation and an- other , are perpetually interchanging substances and natures ...
... thing as death . Nature's great business is reproduction ; and as she works always upon the same materials , spirit and matter , life and extinction , one organisation and an- other , are perpetually interchanging substances and natures ...
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... thing that requires to be quickly buried . I could have raised a few bachelors ' buttons from the bones of that ... things be , And overcome us like a summer cloud , Without our special wonder ? SHAKSPEARE . In the Spring of last year I ...
... thing that requires to be quickly buried . I could have raised a few bachelors ' buttons from the bones of that ... things be , And overcome us like a summer cloud , Without our special wonder ? SHAKSPEARE . In the Spring of last year I ...
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... thing I beheld was intensely in- teresting ; -the recognised countenances of my coun- try , as exhibited in the male population - the soft skins and olive hue of the elderly females - the blended characteristics of both races in the ...
... thing I beheld was intensely in- teresting ; -the recognised countenances of my coun- try , as exhibited in the male population - the soft skins and olive hue of the elderly females - the blended characteristics of both races in the ...
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