Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... Accompanied by one Dupin , A sandy - headed little man , Who daily managed to elicit Jokes from some French Joe Miller's page , Old , and but little of their age ; Though they drew forth as never - failing A roar 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... Accompanied by one Dupin , A sandy - headed little man , Who daily managed to elicit Jokes from some French Joe Miller's page , Old , and but little of their age ; Though they drew forth as never - failing A roar 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... never - failing A roar of laughter every time , As if they were as new and prime As those that we are now retailing . To the Château in Languedoc , Whole deputations From the surrounding districts flock , With odes , addresses ...
... never - failing A roar of laughter every time , As if they were as new and prime As those that we are now retailing . To the Château in Languedoc , Whole deputations From the surrounding districts flock , With odes , addresses ...
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... never laugh'd before , And those who always laugh'd now laugh the more . ” THEY have really brought puppetshows to an in- credible perfection . I have just been gazing upon one which infinitely transcends all the fantoccini , panto ...
... never laugh'd before , And those who always laugh'd now laugh the more . ” THEY have really brought puppetshows to an in- credible perfection . I have just been gazing upon one which infinitely transcends all the fantoccini , panto ...
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... at the Court of Darius , when that monarch lost his favourite wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... at the Court of Darius , when that monarch lost his favourite wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... never known adversity , that he might inscribe them upon her tombstone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the impossibility of complying with his request , he asked him , with his usual laugh , why he should expect to escape affliction ...
... never known adversity , that he might inscribe them upon her tombstone ; and upon the prince acknowledging the impossibility of complying with his request , he asked him , with his usual laugh , why he should expect to escape affliction ...
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