Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both trifiers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1 Engleih Hadfrey 8-6-46 ...
... live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both trifiers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1 Engleih Hadfrey 8-6-46 ...
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... live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the farther end , by which means you will have two snug fire - side places , secure from these reverie - breaking draughts ...
... live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and the fire - place in the centre of the farther end , by which means you will have two snug fire - side places , secure from these reverie - breaking draughts ...
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... live or die , The writing and the prophecy . But I run still less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic ...
... live or die , The writing and the prophecy . But I run still less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic ...
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... lives of our ancestors ; but from which we have profanely cut ourselves off by our plodding , sophisticated , and artificial modes of exist- ence . How can we begin this reform better than by re- curring to the ancient and heart ...
... lives of our ancestors ; but from which we have profanely cut ourselves off by our plodding , sophisticated , and artificial modes of exist- ence . How can we begin this reform better than by re- curring to the ancient and heart ...
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... live ten May months than forty De- cembers - a sentiment to which you shall gladly sub- scribe before we part . Listen to the song of Milton : " Hail , bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth , and youth , and warm desire : Woods and ...
... live ten May months than forty De- cembers - a sentiment to which you shall gladly sub- scribe before we part . Listen to the song of Milton : " Hail , bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth , and youth , and warm desire : Woods and ...
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