Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... present times , while we are continually discovering not only individual tombs of incredible elaboration , but whole subterranean cities of the dead . Though we may smile at that vanity which , convert- ing bodies into mummies ...
... present times , while we are continually discovering not only individual tombs of incredible elaboration , but whole subterranean cities of the dead . Though we may smile at that vanity which , convert- ing bodies into mummies ...
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... present , desired her to make it into à - la- mode beef ; and upon another occasion , when interro- gated whether he would have the mutton boiled or roasted , or how ? replied , " How , for I never tasted it in that way . " 99 If the ...
... present , desired her to make it into à - la- mode beef ; and upon another occasion , when interro- gated whether he would have the mutton boiled or roasted , or how ? replied , " How , for I never tasted it in that way . " 99 If the ...
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... presents upon those women who granted their favours to Pericles . And who is that handsome youth , said I , whose splendid armour , sparkling with steel and gold , is fa- shioned with such exquisite taste , and so happily adapt- ed to ...
... presents upon those women who granted their favours to Pericles . And who is that handsome youth , said I , whose splendid armour , sparkling with steel and gold , is fa- shioned with such exquisite taste , and so happily adapt- ed to ...
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... presents a painful pic- ture to a father . But is it nothing to anticipate the hour of reconciliation , when , with sparkling eyes , my children shall leap to my bosom ? Is it nothing to know from experience that the tide of affection ...
... presents a painful pic- ture to a father . But is it nothing to anticipate the hour of reconciliation , when , with sparkling eyes , my children shall leap to my bosom ? Is it nothing to know from experience that the tide of affection ...
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... present hour is a digression , an episode that belongs not to the main business of life ; we may cut it out altogether , and the plot will not be the less complete . Every sun - dial on the church wall thrusts out his gnomon , as if he ...
... present hour is a digression , an episode that belongs not to the main business of life ; we may cut it out altogether , and the plot will not be the less complete . Every sun - dial on the church wall thrusts out his gnomon , as if he ...
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