Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... heart thrilled with complacent joy at the universal happiness she was diffusing . - A smoky shower , to use one of Chaucer's picturesque words , instead of disturbing , gave a keener relish to my sensations ; for nothing is more ...
... heart thrilled with complacent joy at the universal happiness she was diffusing . - A smoky shower , to use one of Chaucer's picturesque words , instead of disturbing , gave a keener relish to my sensations ; for nothing is more ...
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... heart's ease . I was equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark , medlars , and cardinal flowers . My importation of shoemakers was ...
... heart's ease . I was equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark , medlars , and cardinal flowers . My importation of shoemakers was ...
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... heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it adored . For myself , I could only dream that I was brought by that connecting stream of light into some sort of communication with the inhabitants of the moon , if such indeed there be ...
... heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it adored . For myself , I could only dream that I was brought by that connecting stream of light into some sort of communication with the inhabitants of the moon , if such indeed there be ...
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... heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in a water - lily sleeping , Down came the mountain - torrent sweeping , And , before my love could fly , Dash'd him on the rocks - to die ! " Hereupon the ...
... heart , - ' tis cold as stone ! He's dead - dead - quite dead and gone ! While in a water - lily sleeping , Down came the mountain - torrent sweeping , And , before my love could fly , Dash'd him on the rocks - to die ! " Hereupon the ...
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... heart ! my heart ! " Still the mourner would have spoken , But , alas ! her heart was broken ; - Still her scarlet lips she stirr'd , But their music was not heard : Prone she fell upon her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ...
... heart ! my heart ! " Still the mourner would have spoken , But , alas ! her heart was broken ; - Still her scarlet lips she stirr'd , But their music was not heard : Prone she fell upon her lover , Heaved a sigh - and all was over ...
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