Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... head is always in my hat . " Du Bois , too wealthy to be marr'd in all His plots , was presently a Cardinal , And ... heads ; and this With its new guest agreed so well , That he soon wore an alter'd phiz , Ate heartily , began to swell ...
... head is always in my hat . " Du Bois , too wealthy to be marr'd in all His plots , was presently a Cardinal , And ... heads ; and this With its new guest agreed so well , That he soon wore an alter'd phiz , Ate heartily , began to swell ...
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... head , Tapp'd on his plate three times , and said— “ Pah ! —hard digestion ! hard digestion ! " And his bile - dreading Eminence , Though sorely tempted , had the sense To send it off without a question . " Hip ! Hallo ! bring the ...
... head , Tapp'd on his plate three times , and said— “ Pah ! —hard digestion ! hard digestion ! " And his bile - dreading Eminence , Though sorely tempted , had the sense To send it off without a question . " Hip ! Hallo ! bring the ...
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... heads , who seemed not only miserable , but giddy and intoxicated by the height from which they looked , and took their revenge by instigating the whole rabble beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless ...
... heads , who seemed not only miserable , but giddy and intoxicated by the height from which they looked , and took their revenge by instigating the whole rabble beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless ...
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... head to be shot at as a target , and his body to be used as a sheath for bayonets , for the amiable privilege of inflicting the same treatment upon others . There I beheld a portly personage in sable robes , who took money from his ...
... head to be shot at as a target , and his body to be used as a sheath for bayonets , for the amiable privilege of inflicting the same treatment upon others . There I beheld a portly personage in sable robes , who took money from his ...
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... head . Humour , therefore , I deem pre- ferable to but I am not proceeding systemati- cally . Well , then , this convulsion is of three different kinds . Animal laughter , which may be produced by tickling , or by that happy and healthy ...
... head . Humour , therefore , I deem pre- ferable to but I am not proceeding systemati- cally . Well , then , this convulsion is of three different kinds . Animal laughter , which may be produced by tickling , or by that happy and healthy ...
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