Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you prefer walking ; and for numerous domestics , who invariably do less ...
... live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you prefer walking ; and for numerous domestics , who invariably do less ...
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... live . Children alone can perform the seem- ingly inconsistent office of sweetening both life and death ; throwing a charm over existence , and making " the foul ugly phantom " approach , like the destroyer of Hipparchus , with ...
... live . Children alone can perform the seem- ingly inconsistent office of sweetening both life and death ; throwing a charm over existence , and making " the foul ugly phantom " approach , like the destroyer of Hipparchus , with ...
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... live genteel and pretty . Accordingly in Mile End Road She quickly chose a snug retreat ; ' Twas quite a pastoral abode , Its situation truly sweet ! Although it stood in Prospect Row , ' Twas luckily the corner house , With a side ...
... live genteel and pretty . Accordingly in Mile End Road She quickly chose a snug retreat ; ' Twas quite a pastoral abode , Its situation truly sweet ! Although it stood in Prospect Row , ' Twas luckily the corner house , With a side ...
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... live To - day . " FENTON . TO - DAY is like a child's pocket - money , which he never thinks of keeping in his pocket . Considering it bestowed upon us for the sole purpose of being ex- pended as fast as possible in dainties , toys ...
... live To - day . " FENTON . TO - DAY is like a child's pocket - money , which he never thinks of keeping in his pocket . Considering it bestowed upon us for the sole purpose of being ex- pended as fast as possible in dainties , toys ...
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... lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived yesterday . But what is the best mode of life for the attainment of happiness ? This question has puzzled the philosophers of all ages . Pyrrho , denying the ...
... lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived yesterday . But what is the best mode of life for the attainment of happiness ? This question has puzzled the philosophers of all ages . Pyrrho , denying the ...
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