Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... 140 · Walks in the Garden , No. IV . 151 Coronation Extraordinary 158 • Address to the Orange Tree at Versailles The Cemetery of Père La Chaise , at Paris 165 168 Sunday in Paris Portrait of a Septuagenary Address to the.
... 140 · Walks in the Garden , No. IV . 151 Coronation Extraordinary 158 • Address to the Orange Tree at Versailles The Cemetery of Père La Chaise , at Paris 165 168 Sunday in Paris Portrait of a Septuagenary Address to the.
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... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... trees and fields that surround me . The real shuts out the ideal . The Vale of Health upon Hampstead Heath deprives me , for months together , of the Vale of Tempè ; and the sand - boys and girls , with their don- kies , drive away ...
... trees and fields that surround me . The real shuts out the ideal . The Vale of Health upon Hampstead Heath deprives me , for months together , of the Vale of Tempè ; and the sand - boys and girls , with their don- kies , drive away ...
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... sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great luminary of WINTER . 5.
... sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great luminary of WINTER . 5.
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... trees which I now see nodding in my ideal landscape , and which will continue to wave their green heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a ...
... trees which I now see nodding in my ideal landscape , and which will continue to wave their green heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a ...
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