Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... visiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon , Pour'd forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open ...
... visiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon , Pour'd forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open ...
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| Title | Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 Volume 1 of Gaieties and Gravities, Horace Smith Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Horace Smith Volume 1 of Gaieties and Gravities; a series of essays, comic tales and fugitive vagaries. Now first collected. By one of the authors of “Rejected Addresses” [Horatio Smith], Horace Smith |
| Author | Horace Smith |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | H. Colburn, 1825 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 16, 2007 |
| Length | 699 pages |
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