Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... nymphs and fauns from the sanctuary of my mind . The corporeal eye puts out the mental one : I am obliged to take pastoral objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably ...
... nymphs and fauns from the sanctuary of my mind . The corporeal eye puts out the mental one : I am obliged to take pastoral objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably ...
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... nymph , and piping - boy , Danced around him mad with joy , Until on Ariadne's breast His flushing cheek he wildly press'd , The mingled ecstasies to prove Of music , wine , Bohea , and love . Fill the Tea - pot , fill ! Give me a nymph ...
... nymph , and piping - boy , Danced around him mad with joy , Until on Ariadne's breast His flushing cheek he wildly press'd , The mingled ecstasies to prove Of music , wine , Bohea , and love . Fill the Tea - pot , fill ! Give me a nymph ...
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... nymph awaking , Counts the long chime so dull and dread , Fancies she sees the curtains shaking , Draws underneath the clothes her head , Feels a cold shudder o'er her creep , Attempts to pray , and shrinks to sleep . Although our ...
... nymph awaking , Counts the long chime so dull and dread , Fancies she sees the curtains shaking , Draws underneath the clothes her head , Feels a cold shudder o'er her creep , Attempts to pray , and shrinks to sleep . Although our ...
Page 123
... nymphs , when , on proceeding to take up his body that it might be placed on the funeral pile , they saw nothing but a beautiful flower , around which they knelt in silent reverence . What is it that brings the bees buzzing around us so ...
... nymphs , when , on proceeding to take up his body that it might be placed on the funeral pile , they saw nothing but a beautiful flower , around which they knelt in silent reverence . What is it that brings the bees buzzing around us so ...
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... nymphs debonnaire , Of character somewhat uncertain : But as it is late , and these scenes , I suspect , ' Won't bear a detail too minute and direct , For the present we drop the curtain . PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY ; BY HIMSELF . * " I ...
... nymphs debonnaire , Of character somewhat uncertain : But as it is late , and these scenes , I suspect , ' Won't bear a detail too minute and direct , For the present we drop the curtain . PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY ; BY HIMSELF . * " I ...
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