Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... beneath magnificent tombs . Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet , at Cato parvo ; Pompeius nullo . Credimus esse Deos ? — MART . The monuments of the ancients were mostly con- structed by the sides of the high roads , but this varied ...
... beneath magnificent tombs . Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet , at Cato parvo ; Pompeius nullo . Credimus esse Deos ? — MART . The monuments of the ancients were mostly con- structed by the sides of the high roads , but this varied ...
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... beneath two favourite trees , where he had sat and me- ditated , and heard those sacred whisperings of nature to which we have already alluded . At the time of the Duke d'Enghien's execution , the writer composed some stanzas on the ...
... beneath two favourite trees , where he had sat and me- ditated , and heard those sacred whisperings of nature to which we have already alluded . At the time of the Duke d'Enghien's execution , the writer composed some stanzas on the ...
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... Beneath those waters lie stretched out in peace- ful contact the skeletons of those who met upon their surface in fierce encounter ; the bullets of every nation are scattered around their victims in indistinguishable profusion ; while ...
... Beneath those waters lie stretched out in peace- ful contact the skeletons of those who met upon their surface in fierce encounter ; the bullets of every nation are scattered around their victims in indistinguishable profusion ; while ...
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... beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless figures seemed to enact with a most preposterous alacrity . On the lower benches I beheld grave and reverend - looking seigniors in robes , whose heads were ...
... beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless figures seemed to enact with a most preposterous alacrity . On the lower benches I beheld grave and reverend - looking seigniors in robes , whose heads were ...
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... makes us draw back our foot when the grave opens beneath it . Three - fourths of mankind , in their last moments , seem more anxious to be recorded in 66 this world than favoured in the next ; and 56 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... makes us draw back our foot when the grave opens beneath it . Three - fourths of mankind , in their last moments , seem more anxious to be recorded in 66 this world than favoured in the next ; and 56 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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