Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... stage ; yet what so common in colloquial language as to hear people talk of wooden tombstones , iron milestones , glass ink - horns , brass shoeing - horns . iron coppers , and copper hand - irons ? We LETTER TO THE ROYAL LITERARY ...
... stage ; yet what so common in colloquial language as to hear people talk of wooden tombstones , iron milestones , glass ink - horns , brass shoeing - horns . iron coppers , and copper hand - irons ? We LETTER TO THE ROYAL LITERARY ...
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... stage we have been delighted with his eccentricities , from him of Seville down to Dickey Gossip , whose representative , Suett , with his rapid and ready cackle , will not easily be forgotten . Which of us has not laughed at the ...
... stage we have been delighted with his eccentricities , from him of Seville down to Dickey Gossip , whose representative , Suett , with his rapid and ready cackle , will not easily be forgotten . Which of us has not laughed at the ...
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... stage of life knew of thy existence ; but can the chosen associates who were admitted within the sphere of thy oddities , and shared the overflowing love of thy kind heart , ever forget them ? For their own sakes they ought not , for ...
... stage of life knew of thy existence ; but can the chosen associates who were admitted within the sphere of thy oddities , and shared the overflowing love of thy kind heart , ever forget them ? For their own sakes they ought not , for ...
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... stage - coach , and betakes himself to the Stock Exchange at Paris , where so strange an apparition , exclaiming , Spanish bonds ! Spanish bonds ! " soon brings all the bulls and bears to his side ; with whom he discourses in a tone of ...
... stage - coach , and betakes himself to the Stock Exchange at Paris , where so strange an apparition , exclaiming , Spanish bonds ! Spanish bonds ! " soon brings all the bulls and bears to his side ; with whom he discourses in a tone of ...
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... stages , admirably conducted , depart from and return to Versailles every half hour ; but for the sake of variety , and in the hope of seeing something of life among the lower orders , he betook himself to the cor- ner of the Place d ...
... stages , admirably conducted , depart from and return to Versailles every half hour ; but for the sake of variety , and in the hope of seeing something of life among the lower orders , he betook himself to the cor- ner of the Place d ...
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