Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , 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 ...
... whole frame a walking mummy . Meanwhile his steward , De la Vigne , 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 ...
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... Whole deputations From the surrounding districts flock , With odes , addresses , gratulations , And long orations ; And , among others , the Préfet Of Miroblais , Famed for its annual Fair of Asses , Began a speech which , by its dull ...
... Whole deputations From the surrounding districts flock , With odes , addresses , gratulations , And long orations ; And , among others , the Préfet Of Miroblais , Famed for its annual Fair of Asses , Began a speech which , by its dull ...
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... whole was instantly dispatch'd . Redden'd with vain attempts at stifling At once his wrath and appetite , His patron cried- " Your conduct's rude ; This is no subject , Sir , for trifling ; How dare you designate this food As ...
... whole was instantly dispatch'd . Redden'd with vain attempts at stifling At once his wrath and appetite , His patron cried- " Your conduct's rude ; This is no subject , Sir , for trifling ; How dare you designate this food As ...
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... whole subterranean cities of the dead . Though we may smile at that vanity which , convert- ing bodies into mummies , valuable for their bitumens and gums , entailed the destruction it meant to avert , we cannot withhold our respect ...
... whole subterranean cities of the dead . Though we may smile at that vanity which , convert- ing bodies into mummies , valuable for their bitumens and gums , entailed the destruction it meant to avert , we cannot withhold our respect ...
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... whole cities are submerged , with their churches , through whose portals the porpus flounders , and their palaces , amid whose marble halls the dolphin may recognise his own sculptured image . In that heaped - up repository is all the ...
... whole cities are submerged , with their churches , through whose portals the porpus flounders , and their palaces , amid whose marble halls the dolphin may recognise his own sculptured image . In that heaped - up repository is all the ...
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