Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... sides of the high roads , but this varied according to the taste of the individual . Propertius gave the preference to a retired spot . Dii faciant , mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti , Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter . While ...
... sides of the high roads , but this varied according to the taste of the individual . Propertius gave the preference to a retired spot . Dii faciant , mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti , Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter . While ...
Page 18
... sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at his assailants . I am too old for laughing , they tell me ; but it is by laughing that I have lived to grow old , and they may as well take my life ...
... sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at his assailants . I am too old for laughing , they tell me ; but it is by laughing that I have lived to grow old , and they may as well take my life ...
Page 19
... sides . ( The very hieroglyphic makes one snigger , so festive , social , and joyous is its character . ) And secondly , its delicious alchymy not only con- verts a tear into the quintessence of merriment , and makes wrinkles themselves ...
... sides . ( The very hieroglyphic makes one snigger , so festive , social , and joyous is its character . ) And secondly , its delicious alchymy not only con- verts a tear into the quintessence of merriment , and makes wrinkles themselves ...
Page 61
... sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his ...
... sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his ...
Page 66
... side - window and a bow : Next to it was the Milkman's yard , whose cows When there were neither grains nor chaff to browse , Under the very casement stood to low . That was a pleasant window altogether , It raked the road a mile or ...
... side - window and a bow : Next to it was the Milkman's yard , whose cows When there were neither grains nor chaff to browse , Under the very casement stood to low . That was a pleasant window altogether , It raked the road a mile or ...
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