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... pleasure out of his jokes , because good - heartedness retains that privilege when it fails in everything else . I should say he condescended to be a punster if condescension had been a word befitting wisdom like his . Being told that ...
... pleasure out of his jokes , because good - heartedness retains that privilege when it fails in everything else . I should say he condescended to be a punster if condescension had been a word befitting wisdom like his . Being told that ...
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... pleasure in winning ; that they like to win one game and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card - table , but are indifferent whether they play or no ; and will desire an adversary , who has slipped a ...
... pleasure in winning ; that they like to win one game and lose another ; that they can while away an hour very agreeably at a card - table , but are indifferent whether they play or no ; and will desire an adversary , who has slipped a ...
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... pleasure of sending the substance of them to Mr. Bowles : * but I suppose they came too late to be inserted among his ingenious notes upon that author . 4 Quadrille , she has often told me , was her first love ; but whist had engaged ...
... pleasure of sending the substance of them to Mr. Bowles : * but I suppose they came too late to be inserted among his ingenious notes upon that author . 4 Quadrille , she has often told me , was her first love ; but whist had engaged ...
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... pleasure from this so cried - up faculty . I am constitutionally susceptible of noises . A car- penter's hammer , in a warm summer noon , will fret me into more than midsummer madness . But those unconnected , unset sounds are nothing ...
... pleasure from this so cried - up faculty . I am constitutionally susceptible of noises . A car- penter's hammer , in a warm summer noon , will fret me into more than midsummer madness . But those unconnected , unset sounds are nothing ...
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... pleasure from a casual glimpse of Nature , but must catch at it as an object of instruction . He must interpret beauty into the picturesque . He cannot relish a beggar - man , or a gipsy , for thinking of the suitable improvement ...
... pleasure from a casual glimpse of Nature , but must catch at it as an object of instruction . He must interpret beauty into the picturesque . He cannot relish a beggar - man , or a gipsy , for thinking of the suitable improvement ...
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