Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both trifiers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1 Engleih Hadfrey 8-6-46 55966 3 v . PREFACE . 1825 .
... deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both trifiers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1 Engleih Hadfrey 8-6-46 55966 3 v . PREFACE . 1825 .
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... writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered hills and gay valleys of France , " or in Italy's " love ...
... writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered hills and gay valleys of France , " or in Italy's " love ...
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... writing and the prophecy . But I run still less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic writings , how ...
... writing and the prophecy . But I run still less risk in predicting the durability of my imaginary painting , for I can neither injure nor destroy it , even if I had the inclination . In all ethical , moral and didactic writings , how ...
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... writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the general features of the country , embellished with such graces as his fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is incapable of ...
... writing , or a portrait of any particular spot ; but to present the general features of the country , embellished with such graces as his fancy enabled him to bestow : and unless it be argued that every local prospect is incapable of ...
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... writing . I begin with one intention , and end with another ; start for Cornwall , and am carried away by some freak of the ... write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and ...
... writing . I begin with one intention , and end with another ; start for Cornwall , and am carried away by some freak of the ... write a profound essay on the very in- teresting subject of manure ! Not that I mean to be stercoraceous and ...
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