Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great luminary of WINTER . 5.
... first Italian sunrise . I was sitting , or rather stand- ing , with my shoulders supported against a chesnut- tree , about half way down the slope of the celebrated Vallombrosa , watching the ascent of the great luminary of WINTER . 5.
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... half - frozen water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in ...
... half - frozen water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in ...
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... half so secure as my little mental domain , with no other protection than its ring - fence of evergreens . Is there a castle upon earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As ...
... half so secure as my little mental domain , with no other protection than its ring - fence of evergreens . Is there a castle upon earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As ...
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... half so well as he has . Such matter - of - fact critics might quarrel with Dante for never having been in Hell , and with Milton for not having visited Paradise before he presumed to describe it . Away with these plodders with scissars ...
... half so well as he has . Such matter - of - fact critics might quarrel with Dante for never having been in Hell , and with Milton for not having visited Paradise before he presumed to describe it . Away with these plodders with scissars ...
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... half visible . Such was the transparency of the atmosphere , that notwithstand- ing this plenitude of light , the planets and constella- tions already began to sparkle in their blue depths with a fullness of brilliancy unknown in our ...
... half visible . Such was the transparency of the atmosphere , that notwithstand- ing this plenitude of light , the planets and constella- tions already began to sparkle in their blue depths with a fullness of brilliancy unknown in our ...
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