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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... objects are presented to us with more vivid brilliancy and effect than they ever assume to our ordi- nary perceptions , and the imaginary landscapes that glitter before us in our waking dreams are unquestion- ably more enchanting than ...
... objects are presented to us with more vivid brilliancy and effect than they ever assume to our ordi- nary perceptions , and the imaginary landscapes that glitter before us in our waking dreams are unquestion- ably more enchanting than ...
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... objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered ...
... objects as they present them- selves , and to believe the hand - writing on the finger- posts which invariably and solemnly assert that I am within four miles of London , and not in " Arcady's delicious dales , " on the " vine - covered ...
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... objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the ...
... objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ; either there is less amenity and richness in the light , or the tints have decidedly al- tered for the worse ; in short , his first view , as com- pared with the ...
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... object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the " scriptorum chorus omnis amat ne- mus " of ...
... object in my rural rambles , I know not whither they will conduct me , sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the " scriptorum chorus omnis amat ne- mus " of ...
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... object , but obtained a good crop of butter - wort , milk - wort , and heart's ease . I was equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark ...
... object , but obtained a good crop of butter - wort , milk - wort , and heart's ease . I was equally unsuccessful in raising any sage , honesty , or everlasting from monks ; but they yielded a plentiful bed of monk's hood , jesuit's bark ...
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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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