Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... hand , have not constructed a single dwelling - house which has en- dured to our present times , while we are continually discovering not only individual tombs of incredible elaboration , but whole subterranean cities of the dead ...
... hand , have not constructed a single dwelling - house which has en- dured to our present times , while we are continually discovering not only individual tombs of incredible elaboration , but whole subterranean cities of the dead ...
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... hands to propitiate Cerberus , should have re- tained the same custom , is nothing wonderful ; and indeed it is upon record that Cimon was obliged to purchase from the creditors the body of his father , 6 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... hands to propitiate Cerberus , should have re- tained the same custom , is nothing wonderful ; and indeed it is upon record that Cimon was obliged to purchase from the creditors the body of his father , 6 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... hand in his breeches - pocket , like a crocodile , but was only actuated by ostentation . While we are upon this subject , let us not forget our obligations to the country curate , who desired his flock to admire the miraculous force ...
... hand in his breeches - pocket , like a crocodile , but was only actuated by ostentation . While we are upon this subject , let us not forget our obligations to the country curate , who desired his flock to admire the miraculous force ...
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... hand , had disabled him from doing full justice to the divine originals.- Ah ! said I to myself , here is the true secret of the inimitable sublimity of the Greek sculptors ! That holy enthusiasm --- that utter concentration of all the ...
... hand , had disabled him from doing full justice to the divine originals.- Ah ! said I to myself , here is the true secret of the inimitable sublimity of the Greek sculptors ! That holy enthusiasm --- that utter concentration of all the ...
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... hands were concealed by an ample beard . These were Sophocles and Euri- pides , the tragic writers , who agreed in pronouncing the composition before them defective , because it did not contain the fates or the furies , whose presence ...
... hands were concealed by an ample beard . These were Sophocles and Euri- pides , the tragic writers , who agreed in pronouncing the composition before them defective , because it did not contain the fates or the furies , whose presence ...
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