Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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... young lady of my acquaintance supposed , from the Sardones or people of Roussillon , but from the involuntary hyste- rical affection produced by eating that species of ra- nunculus called the Herba Sardonia . And lastly , ( for the ...
... young lady of my acquaintance supposed , from the Sardones or people of Roussillon , but from the involuntary hyste- rical affection produced by eating that species of ra- nunculus called the Herba Sardonia . And lastly , ( for the ...
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... young folks put to bed myself and smothered in onions . " - " And if they have been very good children , I invariably order the heart to be stuffed and roasted , the gizzard to be peppered and devilled , and the sole to be fried ...
... young folks put to bed myself and smothered in onions . " - " And if they have been very good children , I invariably order the heart to be stuffed and roasted , the gizzard to be peppered and devilled , and the sole to be fried ...
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... young family , made no alteration in his esta- blishment , and was immediately anathematized as an avaricious old hunks ; in fact , a complete miser , who kept living on in the same mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately ...
... young family , made no alteration in his esta- blishment , and was immediately anathematized as an avaricious old hunks ; in fact , a complete miser , who kept living on in the same mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately ...
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... young man , who is listening to their jargon with a sneering smile . Jibes and jeers , jokes , ridicule and burlesque , seem to be flickering in every corner of his mouth : angry sarcasm , and indignant rebuke , glim- mer through the ...
... young man , who is listening to their jargon with a sneering smile . Jibes and jeers , jokes , ridicule and burlesque , seem to be flickering in every corner of his mouth : angry sarcasm , and indignant rebuke , glim- mer through the ...
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... young men . It is Plato ; and his companions are Xenophon and Thucydides , the historians ; names which require no illustration , as they are assuredly destined to im- mortality . " Apart from the rest of the visitants , I distinguished ...
... young men . It is Plato ; and his companions are Xenophon and Thucydides , the historians ; names which require no illustration , as they are assuredly destined to im- mortality . " Apart from the rest of the visitants , I distinguished ...
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