Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... nights allotting To bribes and schemes , intriguing , plotting , Until his 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 ...
... nights allotting To bribes and schemes , intriguing , plotting , Until his 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 ...
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... Night , whereby we are taught to go to bed betimes if we wish to have cheerful and hilarious days . But in this our sombre and anti- risible age , it has rather become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of ...
... Night , whereby we are taught to go to bed betimes if we wish to have cheerful and hilarious days . But in this our sombre and anti- risible age , it has rather become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of ...
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... night or by day , Of the infidel legions that barr'd the way ; Who , with turban and beard , and scymitars rear'd , Through whirlwinds of sand on their enemies dash'd ; And gloried to fall on the breach of the wall , Where the ...
... night or by day , Of the infidel legions that barr'd the way ; Who , with turban and beard , and scymitars rear'd , Through whirlwinds of sand on their enemies dash'd ; And gloried to fall on the breach of the wall , Where the ...
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... night - cap , he may see , Brought to the window by the roar , Which might have split the scull he bore , Unless , indeed , ' twas crack'd before , As sculls like his are apt to be.- O reader , fix your eyes where I have said ; For from ...
... night - cap , he may see , Brought to the window by the roar , Which might have split the scull he bore , Unless , indeed , ' twas crack'd before , As sculls like his are apt to be.- O reader , fix your eyes where I have said ; For from ...
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... night , Emit a temporary light ? Or is it that a heated brain , When it is rubb'd against the grain , Like a cat's back , though dark as charcoal , Will in the gloom appear to sparkle ? Whatever was the cause , the fact is , That Muggs ...
... night , Emit a temporary light ? Or is it that a heated brain , When it is rubb'd against the grain , Like a cat's back , though dark as charcoal , Will in the gloom appear to sparkle ? Whatever was the cause , the fact is , That Muggs ...
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