Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... smart sayings and free sallies which have obtained for her the honour of a scandalous celebrity , compared Marriage to a bag full of venomous ser- pents , among which there were one or two good eels ; ' You put your hand into this bag ...
... smart sayings and free sallies which have obtained for her the honour of a scandalous celebrity , compared Marriage to a bag full of venomous ser- pents , among which there were one or two good eels ; ' You put your hand into this bag ...
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... smart fellows , I have subjoined a few monthly jokes and puns , which , though bad enough in themselves , are sufficiently pointed for street impromptus , and may be occasion- ally launched with very satisfactory effect . That the ...
... smart fellows , I have subjoined a few monthly jokes and puns , which , though bad enough in themselves , are sufficiently pointed for street impromptus , and may be occasion- ally launched with very satisfactory effect . That the ...
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... smart you occasion , provided you can say a smart thing . Your enemy you have a right to wound ; and with whom can you take a liberty , if not with a friend ? A pretty thing , truly , if a jest were to be stifled because it might give ...
... smart you occasion , provided you can say a smart thing . Your enemy you have a right to wound ; and with whom can you take a liberty , if not with a friend ? A pretty thing , truly , if a jest were to be stifled because it might give ...
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... smart pull every time a response was required , and thus made the sisters answer for themselves . Mary , Anatole , and Martin , signified their acquiescence by a very distinct and sonorous toll ; but Zoe , the youngest , seemed to hesi ...
... smart pull every time a response was required , and thus made the sisters answer for themselves . Mary , Anatole , and Martin , signified their acquiescence by a very distinct and sonorous toll ; but Zoe , the youngest , seemed to hesi ...
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... ; yet I question whether the candid and im- partial reader will find any thing in their boyish pro- ductions , much more smart and piquant than the following , which I wrote on Tom Sullivan , one AUTO - BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HUGGINS . 235.
... ; yet I question whether the candid and im- partial reader will find any thing in their boyish pro- ductions , much more smart and piquant than the following , which I wrote on Tom Sullivan , one AUTO - BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HUGGINS . 235.
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