Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... winds blow ! There goes the squire to shoot at snipe , Here runs Dick to fetch a log ; You'd swear his breath was the smoke of a pipe , In the frosty morning fog . Hodge is breaking the ice for the kine , Old and young cough as they go ...
... winds blow ! There goes the squire to shoot at snipe , Here runs Dick to fetch a log ; You'd swear his breath was the smoke of a pipe , In the frosty morning fog . Hodge is breaking the ice for the kine , Old and young cough as they go ...
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... wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn , the green and flowery fields , the rich landscape , the blue ...
... wind , or dancing in the air to the sound of their own music ; to lose the song of the lark , the nightingale , the blackbird , and the thrush ; the sight of the waving corn , the green and flowery fields , the rich landscape , the blue ...
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... wind blowing in under the door of my room puffed out my sun , and a drop of half - frozen water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever ...
... wind blowing in under the door of my room puffed out my sun , and a drop of half - frozen water falling from the ceiling upon my head , owing to the derangement of a pipe in the chamber above , simultaneously extinguished my moon ! Ever ...
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... wind - pipe , you were just to take a look at the 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 ...
... wind - pipe , you were just to take a look at the 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 ...
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... wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the sunny air their renovated being , new vegetation was gushing from bud and blossom , the ants were ...
... wind went merrily along , singing to the boughs " like a piping bacchanal amid the flowers ; " birds and insects were enjoying in the sunny air their renovated being , new vegetation was gushing from bud and blossom , the ants were ...
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