Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... 126 The Tanner's Widow 127 Miss Hebe Hoggins's Account of a Literary Society in Houndsditch - Letter I. 139 Harry Halter the Highwayman 146 Peter Pindarics . - South Down Mutton 161 Page The Houndsditch Album - No . II . 163.
... 126 The Tanner's Widow 127 Miss Hebe Hoggins's Account of a Literary Society in Houndsditch - Letter I. 139 Harry Halter the Highwayman 146 Peter Pindarics . - South Down Mutton 161 Page The Houndsditch Album - No . II . 163.
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... miss their driver , will run their heads against a post or a wall . What they have spent their lives to learn , they would not willingly unlearn : you may prove that it is cruel , or false , or pernicious , which they will not gainsay ...
... miss their driver , will run their heads against a post or a wall . What they have spent their lives to learn , they would not willingly unlearn : you may prove that it is cruel , or false , or pernicious , which they will not gainsay ...
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... she had treated him , his eyes remained fixed upon the carpet , and the tears fell fast upon the backs of his crossed hands . MISS HEBE HOGGINS'S ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SOCIETY IN HOUNDSDITCH 138 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... she had treated him , his eyes remained fixed upon the carpet , and the tears fell fast upon the backs of his crossed hands . MISS HEBE HOGGINS'S ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SOCIETY IN HOUNDSDITCH 138 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... MISS HEBE HOGGINS'S ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SOCIETY IN HOUNDSDITCH . LETTER I. SIR , -You , will please to consider the red ink in which the commencement of this letter is indited , as emblematic of my blushes when I make the confession ...
... MISS HEBE HOGGINS'S ACCOUNT OF A LITERARY SOCIETY IN HOUNDSDITCH . LETTER I. SIR , -You , will please to consider the red ink in which the commencement of this letter is indited , as emblematic of my blushes when I make the confession ...
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... Miss Caustic , the apothecary's daughter ( whom I mean to blackball ) , I have only time to add that I have discarded my baptismal name of Harriet , as inappropriate and unclassical , and shall henceforth acknowledge no other ...
... Miss Caustic , the apothecary's daughter ( whom I mean to blackball ) , I have only time to add that I have discarded my baptismal name of Harriet , as inappropriate and unclassical , and shall henceforth acknowledge no other ...
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