Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other only thrived the faster , Enjoying , as he swell'd in figure , Such constant spirits , laugh , and snigger , That it e'en struck his Excellency , Who ...
... Seem'd to be fattening on his master ; For , as the one grew lank and lean , The other only thrived the faster , Enjoying , as he swell'd in figure , Such constant spirits , laugh , and snigger , That it e'en struck his Excellency , Who ...
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... than any that the power of man could devise or execute . Cæsar and Alexander seem to have had no monuments ; the sarcophagus wherein the latter was supposed to have been inhumed cannot B 5 ON THE CHOICE OF A BURIAL PLACE . 9.
... than any that the power of man could devise or execute . Cæsar and Alexander seem to have had no monuments ; the sarcophagus wherein the latter was supposed to have been inhumed cannot B 5 ON THE CHOICE OF A BURIAL PLACE . 9.
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... seems something soothing and congenial in the thought of our last resting - place being sanctified by the holy , calm , and benign influences of rural nature . In the middle ages , according to the eloquent au- thoress of Valperga , the ...
... seems something soothing and congenial in the thought of our last resting - place being sanctified by the holy , calm , and benign influences of rural nature . In the middle ages , according to the eloquent au- thoress of Valperga , the ...
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... seems to be a union , or rather opposition , of suitableness and unsuitableness in the same object , or any unexpected ludicrous com- bination . I shall not notice the subdivision of Sym- pathetic laughter , which is a mere infection ...
... seems to be a union , or rather opposition , of suitableness and unsuitableness in the same object , or any unexpected ludicrous com- bination . I shall not notice the subdivision of Sym- pathetic laughter , which is a mere infection ...
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... seem to be flickering in every corner of his mouth : angry sarcasm , and indignant rebuke , glim- mer through the flashes of his eyes , tempered only by those gentler emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the ...
... seem to be flickering in every corner of his mouth : angry sarcasm , and indignant rebuke , glim- mer through the flashes of his eyes , tempered only by those gentler emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the ...
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