Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 29
... pass from the contemplation of natural beauties to the study of artificial ones , -from the ever - changing landscape , heavens and sea , to the end- less succession of buildings , statues and paintings , as if the day were too short ...
... pass from the contemplation of natural beauties to the study of artificial ones , -from the ever - changing landscape , heavens and sea , to the end- less succession of buildings , statues and paintings , as if the day were too short ...
Page 38
... pass themselves off upon the world for pleasanter and more perfect beings than they would otherwise appear . He must be a still keener inquisitor who shall detail the finer subter- fuges of female delinquents , and painfully undeceive ...
... pass themselves off upon the world for pleasanter and more perfect beings than they would otherwise appear . He must be a still keener inquisitor who shall detail the finer subter- fuges of female delinquents , and painfully undeceive ...
Page 54
... pass ; While day by day , in sublime array , The glorious pageant roll'd away ! Where are ye now , ye myriads ? Hark ! O God ! not a sound ; -they are stretch'd on the ground , Silent and cold , and stiff and stark : On their ghastly ...
... pass ; While day by day , in sublime array , The glorious pageant roll'd away ! Where are ye now , ye myriads ? Hark ! O God ! not a sound ; -they are stretch'd on the ground , Silent and cold , and stiff and stark : On their ghastly ...
Page 89
... our attention is to be lavished upon these folio noses ; the duodecimos and Elzevirs have done execu- tion in the days that are gone , and shall they pass away from our memories like the forms of last year's ON NOSES . 89.
... our attention is to be lavished upon these folio noses ; the duodecimos and Elzevirs have done execu- tion in the days that are gone , and shall they pass away from our memories like the forms of last year's ON NOSES . 89.
Page 120
... passing off , which vitiate the air , and nothing can be more prejudicial to animal life than their accumula- tion ; while , on the other hand , nothing can be inore favourable to vegetables than these very effluvia , which they ...
... passing off , which vitiate the air , and nothing can be more prejudicial to animal life than their accumula- tion ; while , on the other hand , nothing can be inore favourable to vegetables than these very effluvia , which they ...
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