Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... once his wrath and appetite , His patron cried- " Your conduct's rude ; This is no subject , Sir , for trifling ; How dare you designate this food As indigestible and crude , Then swallow it before my sight ? " Quoth Rabelais , " It may ...
... once his wrath and appetite , His patron cried- " Your conduct's rude ; This is no subject , Sir , for trifling ; How dare you designate this food As indigestible and crude , Then swallow it before my sight ? " Quoth Rabelais , " It may ...
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... once 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 .
... once 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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... once pronounced its own condemnation , when it enabled me to read Zimmerman's book all through , and the only character that excites in my mind the smallest misanthropy is a misanthrope : but still society , as it is now constituted in ...
... once pronounced its own condemnation , when it enabled me to read Zimmerman's book all through , and the only character that excites in my mind the smallest misanthropy is a misanthrope : but still society , as it is now constituted in ...
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... once abusing Palaprat for beating his servant , he replied in a rage , " Zounds ! Sir , his conduct is unpardonable ; for though I have but this one , I am every bit as badly served as you who have thirty ! " Had I been even rich enough ...
... once abusing Palaprat for beating his servant , he replied in a rage , " Zounds ! Sir , his conduct is unpardonable ; for though I have but this one , I am every bit as badly served as you who have thirty ! " Had I been even rich enough ...
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... once A quart of liquid on his sconce . Our host and all his brother wits , Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone ...
... once A quart of liquid on his sconce . Our host and all his brother wits , Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone ...
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