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... DREAM - CHILDREN ; A REVERIE . · 201 DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS · 209 THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY - Sweepers 217 THE METROPOLIS · A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG A BACHELOR'S COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF ...
... DREAM - CHILDREN ; A REVERIE . · 201 DISTANT CORRESPONDENTS · 209 THE PRAISE OF CHIMNEY - Sweepers 217 THE METROPOLIS · A COMPLAINT OF THE DECAY OF BEGGARS IN A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG A BACHELOR'S COMPLAINT OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF ...
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... Dream - children : a Reverie · 201 ' My little ones crept about me ' 203 Tailpiece - Dream - children : a Reverie 208 • · Tailpiece- do . Headpiece Distant correspondents Headpiece - The praise of chimney - sweepers It is good to give ...
... Dream - children : a Reverie · 201 ' My little ones crept about me ' 203 Tailpiece - Dream - children : a Reverie 208 • · Tailpiece- do . Headpiece Distant correspondents Headpiece - The praise of chimney - sweepers It is good to give ...
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... dreams , —and soundings of the Bay of Panama ! -The long passages hung with buckets , appended , in idle row , to walls , whose substance might defy any , short of the last , conflagration : —with vast ranges of cellarage under all ...
... dreams , —and soundings of the Bay of Panama ! -The long passages hung with buckets , appended , in idle row , to walls , whose substance might defy any , short of the last , conflagration : —with vast ranges of cellarage under all ...
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... dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a Sizar , or a Servitor . When the peacock vein rises , I strut a Gentleman Commoner . In graver moments , I proceed Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that ...
... dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a Sizar , or a Servitor . When the peacock vein rises , I strut a Gentleman Commoner . In graver moments , I proceed Master of Arts . Indeed I do not think I am much unlike that ...
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... dreams , would my native town ( far in the west ) come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life , I ...
... dreams , would my native town ( far in the west ) come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life , I ...
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