Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... pass over the worthy squire , who being asked by his cook in what way the sturgeon should be dressed , which he had received as a present , desired her to make it into à - la- mode beef ; and upon another occasion , when interro- gated ...
... pass over the worthy squire , who being asked by his cook in what way the sturgeon should be dressed , which he had received as a present , desired her to make it into à - la- mode beef ; and upon another occasion , when interro- gated ...
Page 32
... pass it set his eyes a - glistening ; In short he couldn't tarry longer , But seizing spiggot and a faucet , He tapp'd it - quaff'd a luscious posset- Then , like a hospitable fellow , Sent for his friends to make them mellow . Among ...
... pass it set his eyes a - glistening ; In short he couldn't tarry longer , But seizing spiggot and a faucet , He tapp'd it - quaff'd a luscious posset- Then , like a hospitable fellow , Sent for his friends to make them mellow . Among ...
Page 43
... passing marbles , or the distinguished living characters by whom they were surrounded , and I soon found that all the realities of existence were hidden from their eyes by a dense cloud of pedantry . To them the glories of nature and ...
... passing marbles , or the distinguished living characters by whom they were surrounded , and I soon found that all the realities of existence were hidden from their eyes by a dense cloud of pedantry . To them the glories of nature and ...
Page 82
... pass a whole week without punning , ( a fearful adjuration ! ) if I do not show that the greatest sages , poets , and philosophers of all ages , have been enrolled upon this proscribed list ! Even in Holy Writ , whatever might have been ...
... pass a whole week without punning , ( a fearful adjuration ! ) if I do not show that the greatest sages , poets , and philosophers of all ages , have been enrolled upon this proscribed list ! Even in Holy Writ , whatever might have been ...
Page 95
... pass- ing wan , and of somewhat melancholic and tristful ostent ; and so she gazed earnestly upon him , who in likewise did glue his looks upon her , much marvelling what this might mean . But incontinent after , sith she neither moved ...
... pass- ing wan , and of somewhat melancholic and tristful ostent ; and so she gazed earnestly upon him , who in likewise did glue his looks upon her , much marvelling what this might mean . But incontinent after , sith she neither moved ...
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