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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... sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the " scriptorum chorus omnis amat ne- mus " of Horace by plunging into the woods , and ex- claiming as I stretch myself ...
... sometimes strolling to the uplands , at another roaming along the valleys , and not unfrequently ex- emplifying the " scriptorum chorus omnis amat ne- mus " of Horace by plunging into the woods , and ex- claiming as I stretch myself ...
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... sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came near him , although he were young and fat , wanted neither food nor water ; nor did the servant imagine what could possibly ...
... sometimes take a Yahoo to retire into a corner , to lie down and howl and groan , and spurn away all that came near him , although he were young and fat , wanted neither food nor water ; nor did the servant imagine what could possibly ...
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... sometimes he fails to excite even a smile ; but his object is at least intelligible , he strives to elicit our risibility , and if he succeed by tickling our sides instead of our fancies , he has still added a modi- cum to the general ...
... sometimes he fails to excite even a smile ; but his object is at least intelligible , he strives to elicit our risibility , and if he succeed by tickling our sides instead of our fancies , he has still added a modi- cum to the general ...
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... sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high , and enjoy ourselves out of our real sphere ; but let us not anticipate the Fates in clipping one ano- ther's pinions . Alas ! the best of us are but as but- terflies ; cut ...
... sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high , and enjoy ourselves out of our real sphere ; but let us not anticipate the Fates in clipping one ano- ther's pinions . Alas ! the best of us are but as but- terflies ; cut ...
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... sometimes , like a tripod that has lost a leg , leaning disconsolately against the wall , because I can- not stand up in my proper place ; and sometimes beating time to the music with my foot , which is as bitter a substitute for ...
... sometimes , like a tripod that has lost a leg , leaning disconsolately against the wall , because I can- not stand up in my proper place ; and sometimes beating time to the music with my foot , which is as bitter a substitute for ...
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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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