Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY , DORSET 1825 .
... deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY , DORSET 1825 .
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... eyes sepulchral , dull , and gummy , And his whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other only thrived the faster , Enjoying ...
... eyes sepulchral , dull , and gummy , And his whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other only thrived the faster , Enjoying ...
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... eyes consumed Some lampreys that before him fumed , Had plunged his fork into the prey , When Rabelais gravely shook his head , Tapp'd on his plate three times , and said— “ Pah ! —hard digestion ! hard digestion ! " And his bile ...
... eyes consumed Some lampreys that before him fumed , Had plunged his fork into the prey , When Rabelais gravely shook his head , Tapp'd on his plate three times , and said— “ Pah ! —hard digestion ! hard digestion ! " And his bile ...
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... eye with a twinkle , and throws a flash of sunshine over the cloudiest visage , while it irradiates and embellishes the most beautiful . Including thine , reader , in the latter class , I counsel thee to give the experiment a frequent ...
... eye with a twinkle , and throws a flash of sunshine over the cloudiest visage , while it irradiates and embellishes the most beautiful . Including thine , reader , in the latter class , I counsel thee to give the experiment a frequent ...
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... eyes and shoulders in amazement at the waste- ful profligacy which , in so short a time , could have run through forty thousand pounds ; though they were aware that much could be done when a man combined mistresses , horses , and gaming ...
... eyes and shoulders in amazement at the waste- ful profligacy which , in so short a time , could have run through forty thousand pounds ; though they were aware that much could be done when a man combined mistresses , horses , and gaming ...
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