Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Том 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 страници |
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... Ladies of England 267 A Father's Gossip - A Child's Death 269 The Steam - Boat from London to Calais 277 Imitation of Horace 294 The Unexpected Discovery 296 Moral and Material Beauty 298 The Song Vision 308 The Dying Poet's Farewell ...
... Ladies of England 267 A Father's Gossip - A Child's Death 269 The Steam - Boat from London to Calais 277 Imitation of Horace 294 The Unexpected Discovery 296 Moral and Material Beauty 298 The Song Vision 308 The Dying Poet's Farewell ...
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... lady - author , who quits her house- hold affairs to shoot , like Icarus , into a romantic immortality . Sometimes , I confess , the task is tiresome . What a nuisance to be daily overwhelmed , at dinner , in the drawing - room , at ...
... lady - author , who quits her house- hold affairs to shoot , like Icarus , into a romantic immortality . Sometimes , I confess , the task is tiresome . What a nuisance to be daily overwhelmed , at dinner , in the drawing - room , at ...
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... ladies , who , while they have the bandage of love or of the senses over their eyes , never see any thing except through the prism of illusions and desire , not to yield to the puerile superstition of consulting one of those Py ...
... ladies , who , while they have the bandage of love or of the senses over their eyes , never see any thing except through the prism of illusions and desire , not to yield to the puerile superstition of consulting one of those Py ...
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... ladies , the only method of securing a rich and good hus- band , who after love ( which has an immortality of some months after marriage ) will preserve for you an eternal esteem ? It is by your good conduct , your manners , your ...
... ladies , the only method of securing a rich and good hus- band , who after love ( which has an immortality of some months after marriage ) will preserve for you an eternal esteem ? It is by your good conduct , your manners , your ...
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... lady at Lille so possessed with this matrimoniomania , that it was impossible for a young man to pay her the commonest attentions without her considering it as an overture , and threatening him with an action for breach of promise when ...
... lady at Lille so possessed with this matrimoniomania , that it was impossible for a young man to pay her the commonest attentions without her considering it as an overture , and threatening him with an action for breach of promise when ...
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