Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... thought it might be acceptable To quiz the Bore , and stop his gabble , Abruptly cried- " Pray , Mr. Mayor , How much did asses fetch last Fair ? " " Why , Sir , " the worthy Mayor replied , As the impertinent he eyed- " Small sandy ...
... thought it might be acceptable To quiz the Bore , and stop his gabble , Abruptly cried- " Pray , Mr. Mayor , How much did asses fetch last Fair ? " " Why , Sir , " the worthy Mayor replied , As the impertinent he eyed- " Small sandy ...
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... thoughts to the pre- carious abode from which they are liable to be ejected by the grim summoner Death , without a moment's notice to quit , while they are comparatively indifferent to that final resting - place which they may continue ...
... thoughts to the pre- carious abode from which they are liable to be ejected by the grim summoner Death , without a moment's notice to quit , while they are comparatively indifferent to that final resting - place which they may continue ...
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... 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 family of the Soldanieri at Florence had a ...
... 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 family of the Soldanieri at Florence had a ...
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... thought it odd that my relations , of whom I had an extensive circle in London , rarely honoured me with the smallest notice , I rather sought to excuse than aggravate their neglect . After all , said I to myself , what is the justice ...
... thought it odd that my relations , of whom I had an extensive circle in London , rarely honoured me with the smallest notice , I rather sought to excuse than aggravate their neglect . After all , said I to myself , what is the justice ...
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... thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should publish such miserable trash and rubbish as this . " I have not the least re- collection of the admission for which these good folks take credit as to the preceding work ...
... thought otherwise , and I am the more surprised that he should publish such miserable trash and rubbish as this . " I have not the least re- collection of the admission for which these good folks take credit as to the preceding work ...
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