Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... young cough as they go , The round red sun forgets to shine , And hark , how the cold winds blow ! In short , winter is come at last - a mighty evil to the shivering hypochondriacs , who are glad to catch at any excuse to be miserable ...
... young cough as they go , The round red sun forgets to shine , And hark , how the cold winds blow ! In short , winter is come at last - a mighty evil to the shivering hypochondriacs , who are glad to catch at any excuse to be miserable ...
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... young shepherds had plucked up a wattle from the fold , and as their sheep came bleating forth , they stood on each side of the opening , singing , in a sort of measured chant , alternate stanzas from the Orlando Furioso . They had ...
... young shepherds had plucked up a wattle from the fold , and as their sheep came bleating forth , they stood on each side of the opening , singing , in a sort of measured chant , alternate stanzas from the Orlando Furioso . They had ...
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... young belles coming out for the first time at a ball - room ; while the bees , like so many beaus , not only fluttered and sung around them , but occasionally kissed the honey from their lips with all that frankness of innocent ...
... young belles coming out for the first time at a ball - room ; while the bees , like so many beaus , not only fluttered and sung around them , but occasionally kissed the honey from their lips with all that frankness of innocent ...
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... But there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
... But there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
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... young flowers , and breathing the breath of life into birds and insects , it may appear melancholy to follow them to their graves in the great funeral pro- cession of autumn ; but in the beautiful provisions of our system there is in ...
... young flowers , and breathing the breath of life into birds and insects , it may appear melancholy to follow them to their graves in the great funeral pro- cession of autumn ; but in the beautiful provisions of our system there is in ...
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