Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 15
... looks , gestures , activity , and earnestness , such manifold tokens of mutual comprehension and intelli- gence , that were it not for the ridiculous actions they are made to perform , one might almost swear they were rational beings ...
... looks , gestures , activity , and earnestness , such manifold tokens of mutual comprehension and intelli- gence , that were it not for the ridiculous actions they are made to perform , one might almost swear they were rational beings ...
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... looks ; though the more charitable did me the justice to admit that I was nothing more than a hu- morist- —an ascetick — a little touched here , as they said with a significant tap of the forehead . This I heeded not ; but though I ...
... looks ; though the more charitable did me the justice to admit that I was nothing more than a hu- morist- —an ascetick — a little touched here , as they said with a significant tap of the forehead . This I heeded not ; but though I ...
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... look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone , exclaim'd : " Isn't your cellar rather damp ? ” Grace being said , quick havoc follow'd ; Many good things were said and ...
... look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone , exclaim'd : " Isn't your cellar rather damp ? ” Grace being said , quick havoc follow'd ; Many good things were said and ...
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... look up to it with silent reve- rence , as if I stood in the presence of some superior being . This impression is probably compounded of the thrilling delight with which minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of ...
... look up to it with silent reve- rence , as if I stood in the presence of some superior being . This impression is probably compounded of the thrilling delight with which minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of ...
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... look .— " Take care , take care , " said Socrates smiling ; " every one of those deities has been ena- moured of more than one mortal , and if Pericles talks of exclusive devotion , even to a daughter of earth , he may have cause to rue ...
... look .— " Take care , take care , " said Socrates smiling ; " every one of those deities has been ena- moured of more than one mortal , and if Pericles talks of exclusive devotion , even to a daughter of earth , he may have cause to rue ...
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