Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... and swampy fields are silent and desolate , and seem , with a scowl , to warn us off their premises ; when the leafless trees stand like gaunt skeletons , while their offspring leaves are lying at their feet , 2 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... feet , buried in a winding - sheet of snow . There is a pain- ful sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are ...
... feet , buried in a winding - sheet of snow . There is a pain- ful sense of imposition , too , in feeling that you are paying taxes for windows which afford you no light ; that for the bright and balmy breathings of Heaven , you are ...
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... feet . A schoolboy might have fancied that he was holding an illuminated kite by a cord of silver , and Endymion would gladly have favoured the same imagination that he might send his heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it ...
... feet . A schoolboy might have fancied that he was holding an illuminated kite by a cord of silver , and Endymion would gladly have favoured the same imagination that he might send his heart up as a messenger to the god- dess whom it ...
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... feet hanging idle on my hands , ( if the cata- chresis may be allowed , ) I began now to entertain hopes of again planting my exploded heel upon a chalked board . But alas ! I was doomed to expe- rience , that there are as many ...
... feet hanging idle on my hands , ( if the cata- chresis may be allowed , ) I began now to entertain hopes of again planting my exploded heel upon a chalked board . But alas ! I was doomed to expe- rience , that there are as many ...
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... feet paddling down the middle , with the floundering porpus - like fling she gave at the end , only accomplished by bear- ing half her weight upon her partner , and invariably out of tune . Often have I wondered at the patience of the ...
... feet paddling down the middle , with the floundering porpus - like fling she gave at the end , only accomplished by bear- ing half her weight upon her partner , and invariably out of tune . Often have I wondered at the patience of the ...
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