Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... person whom nobody visited , which , in default of any actual peg on which to hang an accusation , was gene- rally repeated with sundry dark innuendoes and mys- terious looks ; though the more charitable did me the justice to admit that ...
... person whom nobody visited , which , in default of any actual peg on which to hang an accusation , was gene- rally repeated with sundry dark innuendoes and mys- terious looks ; though the more charitable did me the justice to admit that ...
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... persons I have men- tioned had been formerly fixed , as well as those of Cicero , Pliny , Pausanias , and Plutarch , who have re- corded their visits to the Parthenon ; and then , with slow steps , I quitted the building . On reaching ...
... persons I have men- tioned had been formerly fixed , as well as those of Cicero , Pliny , Pausanias , and Plutarch , who have re- corded their visits to the Parthenon ; and then , with slow steps , I quitted the building . On reaching ...
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... person- age who cannot fly backwards , and that his speed is but hurrying us to the grave . The Hours , his cour- tiers and outriders , are at this instant hovering around us , busy as the Sylphs and Gnomes of the Rosicru- cians ...
... person- age who cannot fly backwards , and that his speed is but hurrying us to the grave . The Hours , his cour- tiers and outriders , are at this instant hovering around us , busy as the Sylphs and Gnomes of the Rosicru- cians ...
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... person do with a few pounds ? It is too little to put in the stocks , or buy a house ; it is even dangerous to keep in your house ; you must spend it in your own de- fence . Such is our treatment of small sums , large ones seldom pay us ...
... person do with a few pounds ? It is too little to put in the stocks , or buy a house ; it is even dangerous to keep in your house ; you must spend it in your own de- fence . Such is our treatment of small sums , large ones seldom pay us ...
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... person of the least discretion will eat much of so sour a commodity ; and Mrs. Pitman informed her nymphs , that she left the small beer to their free and uncontrolled disposal , though she must confess she abominated female tip- plers ...
... person of the least discretion will eat much of so sour a commodity ; and Mrs. Pitman informed her nymphs , that she left the small beer to their free and uncontrolled disposal , though she must confess she abominated female tip- plers ...
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