Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... turned to clay " might be converted to nobler purposes than those which Hamlet has assigned ; for there is no product or element of Nature with which he may not have become renewed and blended under the vivifying and mysterious ...
... turned to clay " might be converted to nobler purposes than those which Hamlet has assigned ; for there is no product or element of Nature with which he may not have become renewed and blended under the vivifying and mysterious ...
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... gazing , another and more silvery light seemed to steal across the heavens ; and turning to the opposite quarter , I beheld the full moon ascending with solemn splendour , although the rival luminary was 22 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... gazing , another and more silvery light seemed to steal across the heavens ; and turning to the opposite quarter , I beheld the full moon ascending with solemn splendour , although the rival luminary was 22 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... turned ; and as I beheld the hyacinths and snowdrops , campanulas and lilies of the valley , all shaking their little white bells in the breeze , I could not help conceiting that from their silvery turrets they had rung out that floral ...
... turned ; and as I beheld the hyacinths and snowdrops , campanulas and lilies of the valley , all shaking their little white bells in the breeze , I could not help conceiting that from their silvery turrets they had rung out that floral ...
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... turning all to gold : - The standard works they made less weighty By new abridgments - took abundant Pains their roughnesses to polish , And plied their scissars to abolish The superficial and redundant ; And yet , instead of fame and ...
... turning all to gold : - The standard works they made less weighty By new abridgments - took abundant Pains their roughnesses to polish , And plied their scissars to abolish The superficial and redundant ; And yet , instead of fame and ...
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... Turning from the appalling sublimity of these cold , desolate , and warlike regions , let his fancy revel in the rich and sunny luxuriance of Grecian landscape , awakening from their long sleep all the beautiful realities and classical ...
... Turning from the appalling sublimity of these cold , desolate , and warlike regions , let his fancy revel in the rich and sunny luxuriance of Grecian landscape , awakening from their long sleep all the beautiful realities and classical ...
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