Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly holding both his sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at ...
... become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly holding both his sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at ...
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... becoming a slave to my own establishment , and of sacrificing the reality of enjoyment for its appearances , I do not ... become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- cent than my ...
... becoming a slave to my own establishment , and of sacrificing the reality of enjoyment for its appearances , I do not ... become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- cent than my ...
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... become mine , were eager to distinguish themselves in this contest of love . Two of them have affectionately consented to become inmates in our house , and I am besides allowed to pay for the schooling of two dear little boys , whom I ...
... become mine , were eager to distinguish themselves in this contest of love . Two of them have affectionately consented to become inmates in our house , and I am besides allowed to pay for the schooling of two dear little boys , whom I ...
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... emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the brightest poet of his age , had not the follies and vices of Athens compelled him to become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 43.
... emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the brightest poet of his age , had not the follies and vices of Athens compelled him to become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 43.
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... become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from my communicative statue , that this was Aristophanes , watching both Socrates and the sophists , that he might burlesque them in his comedy of the Clouds ; and that his two companions ...
... become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from my communicative statue , that this was Aristophanes , watching both Socrates and the sophists , that he might burlesque them in his comedy of the Clouds ; and that his two companions ...
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