Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... beautiful landscape which he has in vain endeavoured to resume under equally favourable circumstances . His position , somehow or other , presents the same objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ...
... beautiful landscape which he has in vain endeavoured to resume under equally favourable circumstances . His position , somehow or other , presents the same objects in a less picturesque combination ; the day is not so propitious ...
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... beautiful poem beginning " The glories of our earthly state Are shadows , not substantial things , " without a deep and solemn conviction of the utter vanity and fugaciousness of all mortal grandeur ; without feeling that it was ...
... beautiful poem beginning " The glories of our earthly state Are shadows , not substantial things , " without a deep and solemn conviction of the utter vanity and fugaciousness of all mortal grandeur ; without feeling that it was ...
Page 10
... beautiful and interesting poem , ) remarks tauntingly that we may guess at the fidelity of the Italian descriptions of scenery , when the author had never wandered beyond the confines of Highgate and Hampstead Heath . So much the better ...
... beautiful and interesting poem , ) remarks tauntingly that we may guess at the fidelity of the Italian descriptions of scenery , when the author had never wandered beyond the confines of Highgate and Hampstead Heath . So much the better ...
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... beautiful scenery , and a soil spontaneously fertile , the Italian finds happiness enough in his ex- ternal impressions , and , considering the dolce far niente as the summum bonum of existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through ...
... beautiful scenery , and a soil spontaneously fertile , the Italian finds happiness enough in his ex- ternal impressions , and , considering the dolce far niente as the summum bonum of existence , suffers his spirit to evaporate through ...
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... beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny Bulls we ...
... beautiful confirmation of its accuracy . THE ENGLISHMAN IN FRANCE . A FRENCHMAN seeing as he walk'd A friend of his across the street , Cried " Hem ! " exactly as there stalk'd An Englishman along the road , One of those Johnny Bulls we ...
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