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... GRACE BEFORE MEAT . MY FIRST PLAY 185 • 195 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 ...
... GRACE BEFORE MEAT . MY FIRST PLAY 185 • 195 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 ...
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... Grace before meat • • These exercises . . . have little in them of grace or gracefulness ' 191 Tailpiece - Grace before meat • 194 Headpiece - My first play . • 195 Headpiece - Dream - children : a Reverie · 201 ' My little ones crept ...
... Grace before meat • • These exercises . . . have little in them of grace or gracefulness ' 191 Tailpiece - Grace before meat • 194 Headpiece - My first play . • 195 Headpiece - Dream - children : a Reverie · 201 ' My little ones crept ...
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... grace to take of me on my first arrival in town , soon grew tired of my holiday visits . They seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone ...
... grace to take of me on my first arrival in town , soon grew tired of my holiday visits . They seemed to them to recur too often , though I thought them few enough ; and , one after another , they all failed me , and I felt myself alone ...
Page 75
... grace , snatched from a superior refinement , soon convinced him that some being , -technically perhaps deficient , but higher informed from a principle common [ Spinkes . ] to all the fine arts , —had swayed the keys A CHAPTER ON EARS 75.
... grace , snatched from a superior refinement , soon convinced him that some being , -technically perhaps deficient , but higher informed from a principle common [ Spinkes . ] to all the fine arts , —had swayed the keys A CHAPTER ON EARS 75.
Page 141
... grace and talent . J. E. then - to the eye of a common observer at least - seemeth made up of contradictory principles . - The genuine child of im- pulse , the frigid philosopher of prudence -- the phlegm of my cousin's doctrine is ...
... grace and talent . J. E. then - to the eye of a common observer at least - seemeth made up of contradictory principles . - The genuine child of im- pulse , the frigid philosopher of prudence -- the phlegm of my cousin's doctrine is ...
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