Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 25
... establish any legitimate claim upon the heart , I am utterly at a loss to ex- plain . Why uncles and aunts , nephews and nieces , and cousins to the third and fourth degree , aliens to my tastes , though kinsmen by blood , should ...
... establish any legitimate claim upon the heart , I am utterly at a loss to ex- plain . Why uncles and aunts , nephews and nieces , and cousins to the third and fourth degree , aliens to my tastes , though kinsmen by blood , should ...
Page 49
... establish'd capers.— He has a lengthy tale , which , when enroll'd , Requires some scores of pages to uphold- ( One Mister Muggs is hero of the poem ; ) And as no hero of the stage struts on , Without a flourish for his Chaperon , Ours ...
... establish'd capers.— He has a lengthy tale , which , when enroll'd , Requires some scores of pages to uphold- ( One Mister Muggs is hero of the poem ; ) And as no hero of the stage struts on , Without a flourish for his Chaperon , Ours ...
Page 86
... established upon an imperishable basis the glory of his favourite science of Parono- masia ; -a glory irradiating and reflected by the whole galaxy of dramatic talent with which he was surrounded . Succeeding writers , though they have ...
... established upon an imperishable basis the glory of his favourite science of Parono- masia ; -a glory irradiating and reflected by the whole galaxy of dramatic talent with which he was surrounded . Succeeding writers , though they have ...
Page 87
... established among themselves an infir- mary for the cure of all defects of temper and in- fractions of good manners . " After dinner a very honest fellow chancing to let a pun fall from him , his neighbour cried out , To the infirmary ...
... established among themselves an infir- mary for the cure of all defects of temper and in- fractions of good manners . " After dinner a very honest fellow chancing to let a pun fall from him , his neighbour cried out , To the infirmary ...
Page 94
... establish him- self in such a goodly household as became his an- cestry . Verily , Alice , ( would he say ) , if ye any thing earthly regard , I do entreat ye forbear this manner of speech , which nought availeth thee to utter , and ...
... establish him- self in such a goodly household as became his an- cestry . Verily , Alice , ( would he say ) , if ye any thing earthly regard , I do entreat ye forbear this manner of speech , which nought availeth thee to utter , and ...
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