Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... Boeotia . I am even seriously inclined to doubt whether the singing of the nightingale has ever awakened so much enthusiasm , or dictated so many sonnets , as the singing of the tea - kettle . 66 For my December is the true pastoral ...
... Boeotia . I am even seriously inclined to doubt whether the singing of the nightingale has ever awakened so much enthusiasm , or dictated so many sonnets , as the singing of the tea - kettle . 66 For my December is the true pastoral ...
Page 73
... Boeotia , and Thessaly ; from Lesbos and Crete ; from Ionia and the coasts of Asiatic Greece . As they ap- proach , their crews are seen doing reverence to the sun , and the faint dulcet sound of flutes and hautboys melts along the wave ...
... Boeotia , and Thessaly ; from Lesbos and Crete ; from Ionia and the coasts of Asiatic Greece . As they ap- proach , their crews are seen doing reverence to the sun , and the faint dulcet sound of flutes and hautboys melts along the wave ...
Page 123
... Boeotian fountain , and wooed the reflection of his own face , mistaking it for the Naiad of the waters , until his heart and the de- lusion were both broken together . Methinks I see the astonished and awe - struck countenances of the ...
... Boeotian fountain , and wooed the reflection of his own face , mistaking it for the Naiad of the waters , until his heart and the de- lusion were both broken together . Methinks I see the astonished and awe - struck countenances of the ...
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