Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... earth , with its majestic trees , delicious fruits , nodding flowers , and glorious overhanging firmament , formed a more magnificent tomb than any that the power of man could devise or execute . Cæsar and Alexander seem to have had no ...
... earth , with its majestic trees , delicious fruits , nodding flowers , and glorious overhanging firmament , formed a more magnificent tomb than any that the power of man could devise or execute . Cæsar and Alexander seem to have had no ...
Page 10
... earth , ever unvisited by the sun , is black and unctuous with the fermentation of accumulated re- mains ; where the smoky tombstones are dank , deso- late , and unperused , and human bones are left scat- tered upon the surface , as if ...
... earth , ever unvisited by the sun , is black and unctuous with the fermentation of accumulated re- mains ; where the smoky tombstones are dank , deso- late , and unperused , and human bones are left scat- tered upon the surface , as if ...
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... earth , of so brittle and fragile a nature , that they were constantly frittering away into dust in the very midst of their dancing and struggling , when others instantly started up into their places , capering or fighting with as much ...
... earth , of so brittle and fragile a nature , that they were constantly frittering away into dust in the very midst of their dancing and struggling , when others instantly started up into their places , capering or fighting with as much ...
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... earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest in all my concerns , from the greatest to the most trifling , I beheld at least their acquittal from the charge of neglect and ...
... earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest in all my concerns , from the greatest to the most trifling , I beheld at least their acquittal from the charge of neglect and ...
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... earth are waiting to shower down rewards upon the successful artist ; -- that the gods , as well as men , are to sit in judgment upon every effort of his chisel . Religious feelings only can create such pro- digies of art , and religion ...
... earth are waiting to shower down rewards upon the successful artist ; -- that the gods , as well as men , are to sit in judgment upon every effort of his chisel . Religious feelings only can create such pro- digies of art , and religion ...
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