Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 19
... wish to raise Venus's looking - glass , Venus's catchfly , columbines , and love - apples . A single dress- ing of jockies will ensure you a quick return of horse- mint , veronica or speedwell , and colt's - foot ; and a very slight ...
... wish to raise Venus's looking - glass , Venus's catchfly , columbines , and love - apples . A single dress- ing of jockies will ensure you a quick return of horse- mint , veronica or speedwell , and colt's - foot ; and a very slight ...
Page 42
... wish her not to prevail . Away , then , ye croaking forethoughts and foresights , that would pour your dark bodings in our ear , and make us think unfavour- ably , although , perchance , too truly , of our species ! Avaunt ! ye ravens ...
... wish her not to prevail . Away , then , ye croaking forethoughts and foresights , that would pour your dark bodings in our ear , and make us think unfavour- ably , although , perchance , too truly , of our species ! Avaunt ! ye ravens ...
Page 105
... wish , if thou wilt but read Darwin's Invocation to the same month . * " Born in yon blaze of orient sky , Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold , Unclose thy blue voluptuous eye , And wave thy shadowy locks of gold . Boskets , bushes ...
... wish , if thou wilt but read Darwin's Invocation to the same month . * " Born in yon blaze of orient sky , Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold , Unclose thy blue voluptuous eye , And wave thy shadowy locks of gold . Boskets , bushes ...
Page 110
... wish , we may be ultimate gainers , both in health and happiness , if we dedicate the first fruits of our unac- customed leisure to the rural duties , and the renewal of that cheerful and cordial intercourse with nature , which ...
... wish , we may be ultimate gainers , both in health and happiness , if we dedicate the first fruits of our unac- customed leisure to the rural duties , and the renewal of that cheerful and cordial intercourse with nature , which ...
Page 111
... wish thee long ! " : - And mark into what exclamations an Italian poet bursts in his passionate worship of the Spring : - " O dolce primavera - o fior ' novelli , O aure , o arboscelli - o fresche erbette , O piagge benedette - o colli ...
... wish thee long ! " : - And mark into what exclamations an Italian poet bursts in his passionate worship of the Spring : - " O dolce primavera - o fior ' novelli , O aure , o arboscelli - o fresche erbette , O piagge benedette - o colli ...
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