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].Henry Colburn, 1825 - 1035 Seiten |
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... earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As the traveller , when he beheld the Coliseum in ruins , remarked that there was nothing stable and immutable at Rome except the ...
... earth that has not , at some period , been taken ; and did you ever know a castle in the air that was ? As the traveller , when he beheld the Coliseum in ruins , remarked that there was nothing stable and immutable at Rome except the ...
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... earth , and rear the magnificent edifices of Rome , before they began to experience the de- generating effects of the climate . In fact they were only an earlier eruption of Goths and Vandals , and did not properly become Italians until ...
... earth , and rear the magnificent edifices of Rome , before they began to experience the de- generating effects of the climate . In fact they were only an earlier eruption of Goths and Vandals , and did not properly become Italians until ...
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... earth , the manifest presence of Nature , " dressing her plants visibly , " as the author of The Months elegantly observes , " like a lady at her window . " We want no miraculous handwriting on the wall , for he who can fail to perceive ...
... earth , the manifest presence of Nature , " dressing her plants visibly , " as the author of The Months elegantly observes , " like a lady at her window . " We want no miraculous handwriting on the wall , for he who can fail to perceive ...
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... earth , and all the sublime pageant of creation , I felt lifted above humanity and its petty thoughts , and brought into a holy and ineffable communion with the great Creator . Descending on the opposite side of the hill , whose broken ...
... earth , and all the sublime pageant of creation , I felt lifted above humanity and its petty thoughts , and brought into a holy and ineffable communion with the great Creator . Descending on the opposite side of the hill , whose broken ...
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... earth , have at least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . might have been freezing under the pole , or scorched beneath the torrid zone : this forms at least one ground of gratitude . Who can place limits to the ...
... earth , have at least no reason to complain of the habitation provided for us . might have been freezing under the pole , or scorched beneath the torrid zone : this forms at least one ground of gratitude . Who can place limits to the ...
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