Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 45
... hope to leave any evidence of their skill after the lapse of a very few centuries , and must content themselves , like the artists before me , with the sha- dowy perpetuation of a name . Seated upon a stool , in front of the principal ...
... hope to leave any evidence of their skill after the lapse of a very few centuries , and must content themselves , like the artists before me , with the sha- dowy perpetuation of a name . Seated upon a stool , in front of the principal ...
Page 61
... hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life , smooth his pillow of death , and give even a ...
... hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life , smooth his pillow of death , and give even a ...
Page 93
... hope . " Now wot ye well that Sir Guy had received a good and clerkly schooling at Oxenforde , and was well learned in all that doth beseem a gentleman ; yet maugre this his knowledge , he was of a haute and orgulous stomach , that ...
... hope . " Now wot ye well that Sir Guy had received a good and clerkly schooling at Oxenforde , and was well learned in all that doth beseem a gentleman ; yet maugre this his knowledge , he was of a haute and orgulous stomach , that ...
Page 100
... hope of more prosperous stead thereafter , ushered her to her chamber , and with a lover's benison committing her to the sleepful god , did sorrowing take his leave . " In his own room scarce had he tarried five minutes , much pondering ...
... hope of more prosperous stead thereafter , ushered her to her chamber , and with a lover's benison committing her to the sleepful god , did sorrowing take his leave . " In his own room scarce had he tarried five minutes , much pondering ...
Page 104
... hope . Let me not , however , be mistaken . No whiskered officer of dragoons , parading the beautiful promenade at Richmond , while music melted on the waves and the setting sun threw its glowing light through the arches of the bridge ...
... hope . Let me not , however , be mistaken . No whiskered officer of dragoons , parading the beautiful promenade at Richmond , while music melted on the waves and the setting sun threw its glowing light through the arches of the bridge ...
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