Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... soul could live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . LONDON ...
... soul could live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . LONDON ...
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... soul , not that of the body , Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a ...
... soul , not that of the body , Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a ...
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... souls ! By asking such half - witted lubbers ? " " This lesson , neighbour , " Tibbs replied , — " That those who choose to play at bowls , Must expect rubbers ! " The Parson at Fault . A COUNTRY parson took a notion Into his head , one ...
... souls ! By asking such half - witted lubbers ? " " This lesson , neighbour , " Tibbs replied , — " That those who choose to play at bowls , Must expect rubbers ! " The Parson at Fault . A COUNTRY parson took a notion Into his head , one ...
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... Aganippe's rill.- Vales and mountains , Grots and fountains , The haunt of heroes , and the poet's theme- Sense viting , soul delighting , Burst on my vision like a glorious dream.— VOL . II . D But , ah ! as soon to fade away , ( 49 )
... Aganippe's rill.- Vales and mountains , Grots and fountains , The haunt of heroes , and the poet's theme- Sense viting , soul delighting , Burst on my vision like a glorious dream.— VOL . II . D But , ah ! as soon to fade away , ( 49 )
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... soul have really proceeded from a desire for perpetuating some remembrance of the body . No one likes to drop into the earth , like a pebble into the ocean , and let the waves of eternity close over him , without some record or memorial ...
... soul have really proceeded from a desire for perpetuating some remembrance of the body . No one likes to drop into the earth , like a pebble into the ocean , and let the waves of eternity close over him , without some record or memorial ...
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