Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... respective merits . But I have a terrible crow to pick with this latter personage , Signor Antiquity , as a mighty stalking- horse on which knaves and bigots invariably mount , when they want to ride over the timid and the credu- lous ...
... respective merits . But I have a terrible crow to pick with this latter personage , Signor Antiquity , as a mighty stalking- horse on which knaves and bigots invariably mount , when they want to ride over the timid and the credu- lous ...
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... I subscribed to six concerts , and my wife . actually went to one . By love of the country I learn that she means Bath , Brighton , and Cheltenham , in their respective seasons ; but as to the rural , 182 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... I subscribed to six concerts , and my wife . actually went to one . By love of the country I learn that she means Bath , Brighton , and Cheltenham , in their respective seasons ; but as to the rural , 182 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... respective seasons ; but as to the rural , the roman- tic , and the picturesque , she protests that she has no particular penchant for " a cow on a common , or a goose on a green , " and is even uninfluenced by the combined attractions ...
... respective seasons ; but as to the rural , the roman- tic , and the picturesque , she protests that she has no particular penchant for " a cow on a common , or a goose on a green , " and is even uninfluenced by the combined attractions ...
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... respective tendencies are modified by being compared with their extremes . Notwithstanding this authority , my wife , whose skin is almost Moorish , persists in wearing a white hat , which gives her the look of a perfect Yarico . De ...
... respective tendencies are modified by being compared with their extremes . Notwithstanding this authority , my wife , whose skin is almost Moorish , persists in wearing a white hat , which gives her the look of a perfect Yarico . De ...
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... respective papers in the Spec- tator , distinguished only by initials . Deeming my own lucubrations ( as what essayist does not ? ) fully entitled to the same anxious research , I occasionally please myself with dreaming that some ...
... respective papers in the Spec- tator , distinguished only by initials . Deeming my own lucubrations ( as what essayist does not ? ) fully entitled to the same anxious research , I occasionally please myself with dreaming that some ...
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