Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes ...
... sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are presented with a thick yellow atmosphere , which irritates your eyes ...
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... senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence ...
... senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire - side for the warmth withheld from him by the sun : hence ...
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... French as Greek , And partly from the want of sense ! The Briton thought this exclamation Meant some reflection on his nation , So bustling to the Frenchman's side , " Mounseer Jack THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . 13 The Englishman in France.
... French as Greek , And partly from the want of sense ! The Briton thought this exclamation Meant some reflection on his nation , So bustling to the Frenchman's side , " Mounseer Jack THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . 13 The Englishman in France.
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... senses , wherein we sympathise phy- sically with the vegetable and animal kingdoms . But there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it ...
... senses , wherein we sympathise phy- sically with the vegetable and animal kingdoms . But there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it ...
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... senses alone , inferior as they are to those of the mind ? Nature has been prodigal in supplying delights , and the in- genuity of man has been unceasingly occupied in con- A whole tributing to their increase or modification . world 28 ...
... senses alone , inferior as they are to those of the mind ? Nature has been prodigal in supplying delights , and the in- genuity of man has been unceasingly occupied in con- A whole tributing to their increase or modification . world 28 ...
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