Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... claim upon the affections founded upon relationship ? There is the moral affection of children towards their parents standing upon the basis of gratitude , and there is the still stronger affection of parents towards their off- spring ...
... claim upon the affections founded upon relationship ? There is the moral affection of children towards their parents standing upon the basis of gratitude , and there is the still stronger affection of parents towards their off- spring ...
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... claim- ants of consanguinity equally near , and dear , and un- known . Oh , the worlds of good advice showered upon me when it was whispered that I was about to marry ! I began to doubt my own identity . Surely , methought , I must be a ...
... claim- ants of consanguinity equally near , and dear , and un- known . Oh , the worlds of good advice showered upon me when it was whispered that I was about to marry ! I began to doubt my own identity . Surely , methought , I must be a ...
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... claim'd the blushing bride.- Alas ! no fancy - woven wreaths Their perfume o'er my pathway shed , And no melodious spirit breathes Wild inspiration o'er my head.- Here we must close our proem ( what a pity ! ) And tumble from Parnassus ...
... claim'd the blushing bride.- Alas ! no fancy - woven wreaths Their perfume o'er my pathway shed , And no melodious spirit breathes Wild inspiration o'er my head.- Here we must close our proem ( what a pity ! ) And tumble from Parnassus ...
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... claim to ancestry Some genealogists deny , And prove by treatise erudite He was a human aërolite , Ejected from some moon volcano , ( Though that is more than I or they know ) , Where still are kept the wits of Muggs , In one of ...
... claim to ancestry Some genealogists deny , And prove by treatise erudite He was a human aërolite , Ejected from some moon volcano , ( Though that is more than I or they know ) , Where still are kept the wits of Muggs , In one of ...
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... claim to our consideration , for , besides its present appeal , it has been the future , and will be the past . He is wise , says an ancient philoso- pher , who lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived ...
... claim to our consideration , for , besides its present appeal , it has been the future , and will be the past . He is wise , says an ancient philoso- pher , who lives to - day : he is wiser still , exclaims his commentator , who lived ...
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