Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 3 |
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... appear young , and simper their girlish graces with a set of teeth from Desirabode , * and a head of hair from Michalon . Yes , a literary or rhyming mother - in - law is , in my * A fashionable dentist in the Palais Royal . opinion ...
... appear young , and simper their girlish graces with a set of teeth from Desirabode , * and a head of hair from Michalon . Yes , a literary or rhyming mother - in - law is , in my * A fashionable dentist in the Palais Royal . opinion ...
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... appears little better than a Tivoli firework . " Of the propriety of submitting to our parents in all matrimonial affairs , the following is adduced as an exemplary illustration : Edward , a handsome cashier , fell in love with the ...
... appears little better than a Tivoli firework . " Of the propriety of submitting to our parents in all matrimonial affairs , the following is adduced as an exemplary illustration : Edward , a handsome cashier , fell in love with the ...
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... appear before the father and mother ; the new Nina Vernon throws her arms around him with a frantic cry , calls upon him to realize his vows , and declares that she will only release him at the altar . A lucky falsehood enabling him to ...
... appear before the father and mother ; the new Nina Vernon throws her arms around him with a frantic cry , calls upon him to realize his vows , and declares that she will only release him at the altar . A lucky falsehood enabling him to ...
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... appear to me that our writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the Society , the President having most logically urged the propriety of such an institution , because this ...
... appear to me that our writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the Society , the President having most logically urged the propriety of such an institution , because this ...
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... appears to be only raillery : " When ( he writes ) I went in my youth to Egypt , I was anxious to witness the miracle attri- buted to Memnon's statue , and I heard this sound , not like others , who distinguish only a vain noise ; but ...
... appears to be only raillery : " When ( he writes ) I went in my youth to Egypt , I was anxious to witness the miracle attri- buted to Memnon's statue , and I heard this sound , not like others , who distinguish only a vain noise ; but ...
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