Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... face grew yellow as gambouge , His eyes sepulchral , dull , and gummy , And his whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other ...
... face grew yellow as gambouge , His eyes sepulchral , dull , and gummy , And his whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other ...
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... face , Cold - cold he lies in death's embrace , The forest is his burial place , Unhallow'd is his grave : - His funeral dirge the breezes sigh , The flowers his nodding plumes supply , And monumental oaks on high Their boughs for ...
... face , Cold - cold he lies in death's embrace , The forest is his burial place , Unhallow'd is his grave : - His funeral dirge the breezes sigh , The flowers his nodding plumes supply , And monumental oaks on high Their boughs for ...
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... face . " — " Well , if I should have another baby , I shall have it immediately- -skinned and cut into thin slices . " - " I do love to see little Tommy well - dressed — in the fish - kettle over a charcoal fire . " - " To behold the ...
... face . " — " Well , if I should have another baby , I shall have it immediately- -skinned and cut into thin slices . " - " I do love to see little Tommy well - dressed — in the fish - kettle over a charcoal fire . " - " To behold the ...
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... face of the earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest in all my concerns , from the greatest to the most trifling , I beheld at least their acquittal from the charge of neglect and ...
... face of the earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest in all my concerns , from the greatest to the most trifling , I beheld at least their acquittal from the charge of neglect and ...
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... faces the Propylæa , and the long walls to the Piræus , represented the presentation of Minerva , bý Jupiter , to the goddesses of Olympus . The sublime countenance and stupendous symmetry of the thun- derer , who occupied the centre of ...
... faces the Propylæa , and the long walls to the Piræus , represented the presentation of Minerva , bý Jupiter , to the goddesses of Olympus . The sublime countenance and stupendous symmetry of the thun- derer , who occupied the centre of ...
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