Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... waters of oblivion , wherein things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is only following the example of other Periodicalists , whose collections have been not unfa ...
... waters of oblivion , wherein things of greater weight and value are daily doomed to be engulphed . He may urge in extenua- tion , that he is only following the example of other Periodicalists , whose collections have been not unfa ...
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... water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and ...
... water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever while you live , let your parlour be an oblong square , with the door in one corner , and ...
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... 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 of fact and ...
... 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 of fact and ...
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... water ? Such is the slippery nature of realities ; but whoever urged this objection against the imperishable visions of the brain ? You may as well talk of cutting a ghost's throat , as of cutting down any of the trees which I now see ...
... water ? Such is the slippery nature of realities ; but whoever urged this objection against the imperishable visions of the brain ? You may as well talk of cutting a ghost's throat , as of cutting down any of the trees which I now see ...
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... water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of climate in forming the Italian character be correct , it may perhaps be asked , since the temperature has been in all ages equally luxurious , how I account for ...
... water gushing from a frozen plug . If my conjecture as to the influence of climate in forming the Italian character be correct , it may perhaps be asked , since the temperature has been in all ages equally luxurious , how I account for ...
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