Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... delights yet to come- " " just at this crisis , ' Oh ! guide me from this horrid scene , These high arched walks , and ... delight to give way to an expression less anxious and fluctuating . The dis- comfited steak lay before him mangled ...
... delights yet to come- " " just at this crisis , ' Oh ! guide me from this horrid scene , These high arched walks , and ... delight to give way to an expression less anxious and fluctuating . The dis- comfited steak lay before him mangled ...
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... delightful cloud of imagination , and heaved and changed in the dim and dreary distance like a magnificent vision of enchantment , which only want- ed the breath of my genius to fan it into shape and exquisite beauty . 6 " At it I went ...
... delightful cloud of imagination , and heaved and changed in the dim and dreary distance like a magnificent vision of enchantment , which only want- ed the breath of my genius to fan it into shape and exquisite beauty . 6 " At it I went ...
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... Delightful anticipations of immortality began to throng upon my mind , and I could almost hear the various theatre - cries of bravo , ' ' encore , ' and ' author . ' With some trouble I had prepared a very handsome speech , to be spoken ...
... Delightful anticipations of immortality began to throng upon my mind , and I could almost hear the various theatre - cries of bravo , ' ' encore , ' and ' author . ' With some trouble I had prepared a very handsome speech , to be spoken ...
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... delightful agony for the result . Lazy time at length brought it upon the stage ; but oh , ye gods ! what a fall was there ! As the thunder cloud and genius were floating gracefully down , one of the ropes cracked , and the enchanter of ...
... delightful agony for the result . Lazy time at length brought it upon the stage ; but oh , ye gods ! what a fall was there ! As the thunder cloud and genius were floating gracefully down , one of the ropes cracked , and the enchanter of ...
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... delightful in a newspaper , with a quiet breakfast , even to him who , dwelling in the city , must necessarily soon learn from other sources whatever may have occurred of uncommon interest . To rise from your slumbers refreshed - to ...
... delightful in a newspaper , with a quiet breakfast , even to him who , dwelling in the city , must necessarily soon learn from other sources whatever may have occurred of uncommon interest . To rise from your slumbers refreshed - to ...
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