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 162
... perfect picture ; And as his eye its outline follow'd , Call'd it a prize - a lucky hit- A gem - a pearl more exquisite Than ever Cleopatra swallow'd , Promulging finally this fiat- “ I'll dine at five , and ask Jack Wyatt . ” The cover ...
... perfect picture ; And as his eye its outline follow'd , Call'd it a prize - a lucky hit- A gem - a pearl more exquisite Than ever Cleopatra swallow'd , Promulging finally this fiat- “ I'll dine at five , and ask Jack Wyatt . ” The cover ...
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... perfect sincerity of heart at the time of each inscription , and the whole not spread over a wider space of time than a few conse- cutive months . Into the cause of my perpetual and glaring discrepancies , it is not my purpose to enter ...
... perfect sincerity of heart at the time of each inscription , and the whole not spread over a wider space of time than a few conse- cutive months . Into the cause of my perpetual and glaring discrepancies , it is not my purpose to enter ...
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... perfect Yarico . De- clined walking out with her this morning unless she changed it , which she obstinately refused , after wrang- ling with me for half an hour ; and , as I was deter- mined to exercise my marital authority , I went out ...
... perfect Yarico . De- clined walking out with her this morning unless she changed it , which she obstinately refused , after wrang- ling with me for half an hour ; and , as I was deter- mined to exercise my marital authority , I went out ...
Página 192
... perfect would have been the posthumous preservation , and how much more delightful to the literary world to have possessed an epic Thebaid from an ancient Theban , than from so affected and turgid a Roman as Statius ! Let us not ...
... perfect would have been the posthumous preservation , and how much more delightful to the literary world to have possessed an epic Thebaid from an ancient Theban , than from so affected and turgid a Roman as Statius ! Let us not ...
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... perfect beauty of the mouth as are the thorns and moss to a rose , or the leaves to a cherry . If there be any old maids still extant , while mysogonists are so rare , the fault must be attributable to themselves , and they must incur ...
... perfect beauty of the mouth as are the thorns and moss to a rose , or the leaves to a cherry . If there be any old maids still extant , while mysogonists are so rare , the fault must be attributable to themselves , and they must incur ...
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