Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... Head Letters from Paris , No. I. - Miss Mary Ball to Miss Jane Jenkins 262 263 266 • • On Asses • No. II . 273 276 280 287 Peter Pindarics . - The Auctioneer and the Lawyer The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger 290 The Cave of the ...
... Head Letters from Paris , No. I. - Miss Mary Ball to Miss Jane Jenkins 262 263 266 • • On Asses • No. II . 273 276 280 287 Peter Pindarics . - The Auctioneer and the Lawyer The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger 290 The Cave of the ...
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... 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 one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the ...
... 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 one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the ...
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... heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at the ...
... heads , spite of all the mortgagees and woodmen in existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at the ...
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... head which shook out a dazzling splendour , appeared to have been their king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a ...
... head which shook out a dazzling splendour , appeared to have been their king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a ...
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... head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT ...
... head , he had instantly dissipated my re- verie , and most unwelcomely hurried me back from the Pacific Ocean , and the dreams of imagination , to the dull and dusty reality of my chambers in Gray's Inn Square . A SPRIG OF SPLEENWORT ...
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