Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 34
... round , All , every one , until it's found : The thief should really be ashamed.— Here are my pockets , ―ransack both ; I have it not , I'll take my oath . " THE STATUE OF THESEUS , AND THE SCULPTURE ROOM OF 34 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES ...
... round , All , every one , until it's found : The thief should really be ashamed.— Here are my pockets , ―ransack both ; I have it not , I'll take my oath . " THE STATUE OF THESEUS , AND THE SCULPTURE ROOM OF 34 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES ...
Page 40
... round ? " That is Pericles , whose head , on account of its dis- proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed ...
... round ? " That is Pericles , whose head , on account of its dis- proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed ...
Page 41
... these observations from a listener behind , who instantly turned round to two companions , prepared with ta- blets to note down what he communicated in a whisper . " That , " said my marble colloquist , " THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 41.
... these observations from a listener behind , who instantly turned round to two companions , prepared with ta- blets to note down what he communicated in a whisper . " That , " said my marble colloquist , " THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 41.
Page 64
... round my own entwined ; Not a night but in my dreams I can hear thy little cries ; I start awake - and think - and the tears suffuse my eyes . Thy trinkets , toys , and dresses , we are forced to hide them all ; They waken new ...
... round my own entwined ; Not a night but in my dreams I can hear thy little cries ; I start awake - and think - and the tears suffuse my eyes . Thy trinkets , toys , and dresses , we are forced to hide them all ; They waken new ...
Page 66
... round and round its steeple . Across the road , half down a street , You caught a field , with hoofs well beaten ; For cattle there were put to eat , Till they were wanted to be eaten . Then as for shops , want what you will , You hadn ...
... round and round its steeple . Across the road , half down a street , You caught a field , with hoofs well beaten ; For cattle there were put to eat , Till they were wanted to be eaten . Then as for shops , want what you will , You hadn ...
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