Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 - 699 páginas |
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... existence , that it might just get one peep at the sun . Behind me the tufted tops of the chesnut woods began to be faintly illumined with the ray ; while the spot where I stood , and the rest of the vale , were still enveloped in a ...
... existence , that it might just get one peep at the sun . Behind me the tufted tops of the chesnut woods began to be faintly illumined with the ray ; while the spot where I stood , and the rest of the vale , were still enveloped in a ...
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... existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at the Radicals and Spenceans , while the bona fide ...
... existence . Show me the terra - firma in Yorkshire that can with impunity make such a boast as this . Mine is an estate upon which I can reside all the year round , and laugh at the Radicals and Spenceans , while the bona fide ...
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... existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through his senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire ...
... existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through his senses , and dreams away life in a kind of animal listlessness . An Englishman is obliged to draw upon his mind for the gratifications denied to his body , and apply to his fire ...
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... existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a quickened circulation and de ...
... existence . Spring is undoubtedly the most exhilarating of all seasons , not only from its moral associations and pro- mises of a flowery future , but from certain involuntary impulses arising from a quickened circulation and de ...
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... existence , have harped upon this strain usque ad nauseam ; for it may be doubted whether their doctrine be perfectly salutary in its tendency , while it is clear that it is by no means tenable as to truth . Ingratitude and discontent ...
... existence , have harped upon this strain usque ad nauseam ; for it may be doubted whether their doctrine be perfectly salutary in its tendency , while it is clear that it is by no means tenable as to truth . Ingratitude and discontent ...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 1 Horace Smith Visualização integral - 1825 |
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