Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 22
... mean time I do most seri- ously and sadly exhort my readers to be comical ; admonishing them , that in these gloomy and puzzling times , when the chances are three to two against the landlord , when the five per cents . are fours 22 ...
... mean time I do most seri- ously and sadly exhort my readers to be comical ; admonishing them , that in these gloomy and puzzling times , when the chances are three to two against the landlord , when the five per cents . are fours 22 ...
Page 24
... means were hardly adequate to the purchase of the wreaths and gilding in which the victims of fashion must be tricked out , though I was quite rich enough to make myself happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though ...
... means were hardly adequate to the purchase of the wreaths and gilding in which the victims of fashion must be tricked out , though I was quite rich enough to make myself happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though ...
Page 30
... mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and fell into speedy embarrassment , when the world fairly ...
... mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and fell into speedy embarrassment , when the world fairly ...
Page 60
... mean the cherubs ' heads , engraved upon our tombs . I love to see them fluttering about , as if they were appointed to keep up the communication , and were ready to convey intelligence from one world to the other . As to the monumental ...
... mean the cherubs ' heads , engraved upon our tombs . I love to see them fluttering about , as if they were appointed to keep up the communication , and were ready to convey intelligence from one world to the other . As to the monumental ...
Page 82
... means of a pun . In the ninth book of the Odyssey , that hero informs the Cyclops that his name is Noman ; and when the monster , after having had his eye put out in his sleep , awakes in agony , he thus roars to his companions for ...
... means of a pun . In the ninth book of the Odyssey , that hero informs the Cyclops that his name is Noman ; and when the monster , after having had his eye put out in his sleep , awakes in agony , he thus roars to his companions for ...
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