Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... 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 they will have nothing so ...
... 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 they will have nothing so ...
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... existence of the fact itself , that we should hardly know what to believe , were it not for the authority of Strabo , a grave geographer , and an eye - witness , who , without any apparent wish to impose upon his readers , declares that ...
... existence of the fact itself , that we should hardly know what to believe , were it not for the authority of Strabo , a grave geographer , and an eye - witness , who , without any apparent wish to impose upon his readers , declares that ...
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... existence : he proposes to himself a certain object , and day by day has the consolation of reflecting that he has made new progress towards its attainment . An old man was lately living in the City , and perhaps still vegetates , who ...
... existence : he proposes to himself a certain object , and day by day has the consolation of reflecting that he has made new progress towards its attainment . An old man was lately living in the City , and perhaps still vegetates , who ...
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... existence , pitiable as it is , embitters the termination of every year with corroding anticipations of waning beauty , and all that silent fret- ting of the spirit , which gnaws the heart inwardly , while it suppresses every external ...
... existence , pitiable as it is , embitters the termination of every year with corroding anticipations of waning beauty , and all that silent fret- ting of the spirit , which gnaws the heart inwardly , while it suppresses every external ...
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... existence , with all her charms and brightness fading utterly away . These are the blooming virgins yearly sacrificed to the Mi- notaur of Luxury , which , prohibiting all marriages in a certain class of life , that are not sanctioned ...
... existence , with all her charms and brightness fading utterly away . These are the blooming virgins yearly sacrificed to the Mi- notaur of Luxury , which , prohibiting all marriages in a certain class of life , that are not sanctioned ...
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