Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... What Life to Choose Mind and Body 287 297 306 Account of an Apparition 308 Bond Street in September 317 The Poet among the Trees . 325 Fortune Telling . 328 1 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . PETER PINDARICS . The Mayor iv CONTENTS .
... What Life to Choose Mind and Body 287 297 306 Account of an Apparition 308 Bond Street in September 317 The Poet among the Trees . 325 Fortune Telling . 328 1 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . PETER PINDARICS . The Mayor iv CONTENTS .
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... fortune , or as- sumes that ghastly smile or " jealous leer malign , " designated the Sardonic grin , not , as a young lady of my acquaintance supposed , from the Sardones or people of Roussillon , but from the involuntary hyste- rical ...
... fortune , or as- sumes that ghastly smile or " jealous leer malign , " designated the Sardonic grin , not , as a young lady of my acquaintance supposed , from the Sardones or people of Roussillon , but from the involuntary hyste- rical ...
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... fortune , whose portion was not doubled or tripled ; which at least shows the good wishes of the narrators . If she be not married , this exaggerated statement is , to be sure , apt to be ad- duced as a proof that there must be ...
... fortune , whose portion was not doubled or tripled ; which at least shows the good wishes of the narrators . If she be not married , this exaggerated statement is , to be sure , apt to be ad- duced as a proof that there must be ...
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... fortune of those whom I was embracing . Affecting speculation ! Is it possible that these vivacious beings , bounding about in an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous , and paralytic ...
... fortune of those whom I was embracing . Affecting speculation ! Is it possible that these vivacious beings , bounding about in an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous , and paralytic ...
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... better to his liking ) with giglots and gold- wasting wantons , upon whom he lavished his sub- stance , and then betook himself to the dice to re- pair his fortune for ever one wickedness begetteth another . SIR GUY EVELING'S DREAM . 93.
... better to his liking ) with giglots and gold- wasting wantons , upon whom he lavished his sub- stance , and then betook himself to the dice to re- pair his fortune for ever one wickedness begetteth another . SIR GUY EVELING'S DREAM . 93.
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