Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... friends to make them mellow . Among them he invited one Call'd Tibbs , a simple - witted wight , Whom Mister Dobson took delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all ...
... friends to make them mellow . Among them he invited one Call'd Tibbs , a simple - witted wight , Whom Mister Dobson took delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all ...
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... friends and children perished in the great plague . And had these men , said I , turning to the statue , so deep and sensitive a reverence for religion , as to feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ...
... friends and children perished in the great plague . And had these men , said I , turning to the statue , so deep and sensitive a reverence for religion , as to feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ...
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... friend and counsellor of Pericles ; who , in order to avoid the jealousy of the turbulent democracy , concealed his interference in state affairs , under the cloak of a professor of music . In this capacity , he had procured the Odeum ...
... friend and counsellor of Pericles ; who , in order to avoid the jealousy of the turbulent democracy , concealed his interference in state affairs , under the cloak of a professor of music . In this capacity , he had procured the Odeum ...
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... heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or attraction ; even her frowns are beauti- ful , and we need not fear that death shall TO - DAY . 77.
... heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or attraction ; even her frowns are beauti- ful , and we need not fear that death shall TO - DAY . 77.
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... friends ! let us be wise now ; here is a fool coming . " This man's race is not extinct . Reader ! hast thou not sometimes encountered a starched - looking quiz , who seemed to have steeped his countenance in vinegar to preserve it from ...
... friends ! let us be wise now ; here is a fool coming . " This man's race is not extinct . Reader ! hast thou not sometimes encountered a starched - looking quiz , who seemed to have steeped his countenance in vinegar to preserve it from ...
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