Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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Página 72
... heard when he treads upon roses , but his progress is not the less certain ; we need not shake his hour - glass to make the sands of life flow faster ; they keep perpetually diminishing ; night and day , asleep or awake , grain by grain ...
... heard when he treads upon roses , but his progress is not the less certain ; we need not shake his hour - glass to make the sands of life flow faster ; they keep perpetually diminishing ; night and day , asleep or awake , grain by grain ...
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... heard his tread , Than , pouncing on him like a bruin , He almost shook him into ruin , And with a shout of laughter said- " By gom , I have cotch'd thee now ! so down With cash for all , and my half - crown . " Off went the bandage ...
... heard his tread , Than , pouncing on him like a bruin , He almost shook him into ruin , And with a shout of laughter said- " By gom , I have cotch'd thee now ! so down With cash for all , and my half - crown . " Off went the bandage ...
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... had a troublous and astounding dream ; though he him- self ever stoutly did maintain that being right well awake , and having just heard the Temple clock strike • eight of the morning , he looked to his 94 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... had a troublous and astounding dream ; though he him- self ever stoutly did maintain that being right well awake , and having just heard the Temple clock strike • eight of the morning , he looked to his 94 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
Página 96
... heard a knocking thereat , and opening he found his servant , who came in fear that some mishap might have befallen , sith he had also heard the shrieking of the vision , whereby his master was right well assured that it was not a dream ...
... heard a knocking thereat , and opening he found his servant , who came in fear that some mishap might have befallen , sith he had also heard the shrieking of the vision , whereby his master was right well assured that it was not a dream ...
Página 117
... heard by the party for whom it was intended , and will be certainly unmerited ? As to Antiquity - the stream of time is the only one that cannot be navigated both ways ; there is no steam - boat that can work against wind and tide , and ...
... heard by the party for whom it was intended , and will be certainly unmerited ? As to Antiquity - the stream of time is the only one that cannot be navigated both ways ; there is no steam - boat that can work against wind and tide , and ...
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