Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 71
... noble scutcheons , ancient and modern , from the now first - detected intrigues of chaplains , captains , pages , and serving - men , with their frail mistresses , whose long stomachers , stuck up in the picture - gallery of the old ...
... noble scutcheons , ancient and modern , from the now first - detected intrigues of chaplains , captains , pages , and serving - men , with their frail mistresses , whose long stomachers , stuck up in the picture - gallery of the old ...
Page 76
... noble river , unless they choose to subject themselves to a penalty of 5s . Our own times have had their full share of this pendulating between extremes . To the lively Pa risians nothing appeared more atrociously tyrannical , than that ...
... noble river , unless they choose to subject themselves to a penalty of 5s . Our own times have had their full share of this pendulating between extremes . To the lively Pa risians nothing appeared more atrociously tyrannical , than that ...
Page 84
... of the marble the mean and indented pug - nose of Socrates . Whence did that extraordinary people derive their noble figure noses . rare . and beautiful features , which they idealised into such sublime 84 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... of the marble the mean and indented pug - nose of Socrates . Whence did that extraordinary people derive their noble figure noses . rare . and beautiful features , which they idealised into such sublime 84 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
Page 89
... noble varieties ; but the term has become a misnomer ; it is no longer applicable to the inhabitants of the Eternal City , whose nasal bridges seem to have subsided with the decline and fall of their empire . While we are upon the ...
... noble varieties ; but the term has become a misnomer ; it is no longer applicable to the inhabitants of the Eternal City , whose nasal bridges seem to have subsided with the decline and fall of their empire . While we are upon the ...
Page 97
... noble English family , the Plantagenets . Next to it is the Arbutus , the most graceful and beautiful of all plants , and nearly singu- lar in bearing its flowers and strawberry - like fruit at the same time , although the florets be ...
... noble English family , the Plantagenets . Next to it is the Arbutus , the most graceful and beautiful of all plants , and nearly singu- lar in bearing its flowers and strawberry - like fruit at the same time , although the florets be ...
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