Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... figure , Such constant spirits , laugh , and snigger , That it e'en struck his Excellency , Who call'd him up , and ask'd him whence he VOL . II . B Contrived to get so plump and jolly ; While he PETER PINDARICS -The Mayor of Miroblais.
... figure , Such constant spirits , laugh , and snigger , That it e'en struck his Excellency , Who call'd him up , and ask'd him whence he VOL . II . B Contrived to get so plump and jolly ; While he PETER PINDARICS -The Mayor of Miroblais.
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... figures of horses , so that the population of this ex- tensive receptacle resembled a party of armed knights ready for action . Viewed by torch - light , this assem- blage must have formed a sight awfully solemn , and well according ...
... figures of horses , so that the population of this ex- tensive receptacle resembled a party of armed knights ready for action . Viewed by torch - light , this assem- blage must have formed a sight awfully solemn , and well according ...
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... one which infinitely transcends all the fantoccini , panto- mimes , or dramas , I ever beheld ; the figures appear- ing to be actuated by human passions , and exhibiting 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . The Wisdom of Laughter.
... one which infinitely transcends all the fantoccini , panto- mimes , or dramas , I ever beheld ; the figures appear- ing to be actuated by human passions , and exhibiting 14 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . The Wisdom of Laughter.
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... figures with glittering bau- bles upon their heads , who seemed not only miserable , but giddy and intoxicated by the height from which they looked , and took their revenge ... figure in scarlet , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
... figures with glittering bau- bles upon their heads , who seemed not only miserable , but giddy and intoxicated by the height from which they looked , and took their revenge ... figure in scarlet , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
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... figure in scarlet , who had not only sold himself as a slave for the honour of wearing a little gold orna- ment upon his shoulder , but suffered his head to be shot at as a target , and his body to be used as a sheath for bayonets , for ...
... figure in scarlet , who had not only sold himself as a slave for the honour of wearing a little gold orna- ment upon his shoulder , but suffered his head to be shot at as a target , and his body to be used as a sheath for bayonets , for ...
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