Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... door , Balked are the courts , and contest is no more ; Despairing quacks , with curses fled the place , And vile attornies , now an useless race , ' 1 2 THE POOR AUTHOR . so that it was difficult THE POOR AUTHOR . 3.
... door , Balked are the courts , and contest is no more ; Despairing quacks , with curses fled the place , And vile attornies , now an useless race , ' 1 2 THE POOR AUTHOR . so that it was difficult THE POOR AUTHOR . 3.
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... contest ? enter but your door , Balked are the courts , and contest is no more ; Despairing quacks , with curses fled the place , And vile attornies , now an useless race , ' " Sir ? " ejaculated I , not very well THE POOR AUTHOR . 3.
... contest ? enter but your door , Balked are the courts , and contest is no more ; Despairing quacks , with curses fled the place , And vile attornies , now an useless race , ' " Sir ? " ejaculated I , not very well THE POOR AUTHOR . 3.
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... doors , and dungeons , unexpected assassinations , and resurrections , more unexpected still . " My undertaking ... door , and always to keep their guns cocked . Now here was a predicament , and I knew not what to do . The whole of ...
... doors , and dungeons , unexpected assassinations , and resurrections , more unexpected still . " My undertaking ... door , and always to keep their guns cocked . Now here was a predicament , and I knew not what to do . The whole of ...
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... door , entered majesti- cally , and took my seat modestly . I " The house was already thronged with ladies and gentlemen , with their various appendages of quizzing- glasses and bamboo canes ; and frequent murmurs of impatience buzzed ...
... door , entered majesti- cally , and took my seat modestly . I " The house was already thronged with ladies and gentlemen , with their various appendages of quizzing- glasses and bamboo canes ; and frequent murmurs of impatience buzzed ...
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... door presented to the eye of the admiring company a head that some sculptor seemed to have formed to make a statue of . The Venus is not more simple . A single beautiful rose , just taken from the dews of heaven , blushed above her ...
... door presented to the eye of the admiring company a head that some sculptor seemed to have formed to make a statue of . The Venus is not more simple . A single beautiful rose , just taken from the dews of heaven , blushed above her ...
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