Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and I do contend that this is the unlocking of a more glorious mental world , abundantly atoning for all our external annoyances , were they even ten times more offensive . That man ...
... look inwards , to draw from their internal resources ; and I do contend that this is the unlocking of a more glorious mental world , abundantly atoning for all our external annoyances , were they even ten times more offensive . That man ...
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... look at the water - pipe , you need not , like me , be subject to the demolition of the loveliest sunrise that was ever invisible . Such are the casualties to which the most prudent visionaries are exposed : but are the plodding fellows ...
... look at the water - pipe , you need not , like me , be subject to the demolition of the loveliest sunrise that was ever invisible . Such are the casualties to which the most prudent visionaries are exposed : but are the plodding fellows ...
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... widowed Queen of Shadows ejaculated in a tone of still more impassioned grief— " From these arms he shall not stir , These shall be his sepulchre ; VOL . I. C Come , my love - look up - behold , PITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 25.
... widowed Queen of Shadows ejaculated in a tone of still more impassioned grief— " From these arms he shall not stir , These shall be his sepulchre ; VOL . I. C Come , my love - look up - behold , PITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 25.
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... look up - behold , - Again to my breast Thy cheek is press'd : Oh ! how cold - how shuddering cold ! ” — No sooner had she ceased than the attendants re- sumed their consolatory chaunt . " For a winding - sheet we'll take Leaf of lily ...
... look up - behold , - Again to my breast Thy cheek is press'd : Oh ! how cold - how shuddering cold ! ” — No sooner had she ceased than the attendants re- sumed their consolatory chaunt . " For a winding - sheet we'll take Leaf of lily ...
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... look and demeanour which varnished them over : we should have all the nause- ousness of the pill , and miss nothing but the gilding . Falsehood and duplicity may be rendered vices by their quantum or their motive , but they cannot be ...
... look and demeanour which varnished them over : we should have all the nause- ousness of the pill , and miss nothing but the gilding . Falsehood and duplicity may be rendered vices by their quantum or their motive , but they cannot be ...
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