Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... whole of European and Asiatic Greece , and am pre- pared to prove , that more genuine Parnassian stimulus has emanated from a single chest of eight - shilling black tea , than from all the rills and founts of Arcady , Thessaly , and ...
... whole of European and Asiatic Greece , and am pre- pared to prove , that more genuine Parnassian stimulus has emanated from a single chest of eight - shilling black tea , than from all the rills and founts of Arcady , Thessaly , and ...
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... whole scene of Vallombrosa , the god of day climbing over the mountains , the chesnut - woods , and the spout- ing shepherds , gradually developed themselves anew with all the effulgence and exact individuality of the first impression ...
... whole scene of Vallombrosa , the god of day climbing over the mountains , the chesnut - woods , and the spout- ing shepherds , gradually developed themselves anew with all the effulgence and exact individuality of the first impression ...
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... whole gorgeous prospect upon the canvas of my brain . There it remains ; it is mine in perpe- tual possession , and no new Napoleon can take it down and carry it off to the Louvre . It is deeply and inef- faceably engraved upon my ...
... whole gorgeous prospect upon the canvas of my brain . There it remains ; it is mine in perpe- tual possession , and no new Napoleon can take it down and carry it off to the Louvre . It is deeply and inef- faceably engraved upon my ...
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... whole limited extent of the country . On the side where I ascended there were but partial marks of cultivation , but the whole surface was a natural garden of palm , cocoa - nut , ba- nana , and plantain trees , interspersed with guava ...
... whole limited extent of the country . On the side where I ascended there were but partial marks of cultivation , but the whole surface was a natural garden of palm , cocoa - nut , ba- nana , and plantain trees , interspersed with guava ...
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... her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ! Methought a wailful cry was uttered by the whole assemblage , followed by a sad and strange funereal mu- sic , which was suddenly interrupted by the loud bark- 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ! Methought a wailful cry was uttered by the whole assemblage , followed by a sad and strange funereal mu- sic , which was suddenly interrupted by the loud bark- 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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