Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... hope the poor beetle has escaped unhurt . That a Parisian shepherdess in bisquit should take French leave of my mantelpiece , is perhaps natural , and may be attributed to love of home rather than of music ; nor is it wonderful that a ...
... hope the poor beetle has escaped unhurt . That a Parisian shepherdess in bisquit should take French leave of my mantelpiece , is perhaps natural , and may be attributed to love of home rather than of music ; nor is it wonderful that a ...
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... hope to inherit from the present generation . - Our houses regularly fall in before the leases ; our churches will never come down to him , unless it be their roofs ; and as to our thatched palaces , and others in imitation of Chinese ...
... hope to inherit from the present generation . - Our houses regularly fall in before the leases ; our churches will never come down to him , unless it be their roofs ; and as to our thatched palaces , and others in imitation of Chinese ...
Página 133
... hope , which is a better ; and as to her nephew Frank Millington , against whom they com- bined all their powers of misrepresentation and abuse , he himself became their most efficient ally , by the wildness of his life , and the ...
... hope , which is a better ; and as to her nephew Frank Millington , against whom they com- bined all their powers of misrepresentation and abuse , he himself became their most efficient ally , by the wildness of his life , and the ...
Página 137
... shall have attained the age of twenty - five years , by which time I hope he will have so far reformed his evil habits , as that he may be safely intrusted with the large fortune which I hereby be- queath THE TANNER'S WIDOW . 137.
... shall have attained the age of twenty - five years , by which time I hope he will have so far reformed his evil habits , as that he may be safely intrusted with the large fortune which I hereby be- queath THE TANNER'S WIDOW . 137.
Página 141
... hope Mrs. H— will be particular in stating to Mrs. H- , " & c . - and thus she continued for a whole page , confounding first , second , and third persons , and bepuzzling Mrs. H - ' s in a most astounding commutation of initials and in ...
... hope Mrs. H— will be particular in stating to Mrs. H- , " & c . - and thus she continued for a whole page , confounding first , second , and third persons , and bepuzzling Mrs. H - ' s in a most astounding commutation of initials and in ...
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