Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... round red sun forgets to shine , And hark , how the cold winds blow ! In short , winter is come at last - a mighty evil to the shivering hypochondriacs , who are glad to catch at any excuse to be miserable ; but a visitation which , by ...
... round red sun forgets to shine , And hark , how the cold winds blow ! In short , winter is come at last - a mighty evil to the shivering hypochondriacs , who are glad to catch at any excuse to be miserable ; but a visitation which , by ...
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... round , and laugh at the Radicals and Spenceans , while the bona fide landholders are only redeeming their acres from the grasp of those hungry philanthropists , that they may be devoured piecemeal by the more insatiable maw of the ...
... round , and laugh at the Radicals and Spenceans , while the bona fide landholders are only redeeming their acres from the grasp of those hungry philanthropists , that they may be devoured piecemeal by the more insatiable maw of the ...
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... round of reproduc- tion , and changing into beauty , fragrance , and life , shall either be converted into tulips and roses , flutter in the air in the form of butterflies and moths , or re- assuming a vegetable being , become again ...
... round of reproduc- tion , and changing into beauty , fragrance , and life , shall either be converted into tulips and roses , flutter in the air in the form of butterflies and moths , or re- assuming a vegetable being , become again ...
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... with which it was belted round , I observed in the middle one of those barren circles denominated Fairy - rings ; and while I was wondering whether those tiny elves ever visited this sequestered and romantic PITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 23.
... with which it was belted round , I observed in the middle one of those barren circles denominated Fairy - rings ; and while I was wondering whether those tiny elves ever visited this sequestered and romantic PITCAIRN'S ISLAND . 23.
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... round to discover its source , I could behold nothing but the serene and silent moon , from whose full orb a bar of rippling light ran along the sea , appearing to terminate at my very feet . A schoolboy might have fancied that he was ...
... round to discover its source , I could behold nothing but the serene and silent moon , from whose full orb a bar of rippling light ran along the sea , appearing to terminate at my very feet . A schoolboy might have fancied that he was ...
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