A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment: With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction, Band 1Leigh Hunt G.P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... eyes of many readers , perhaps of most , would in all probability improve it . This was , to suppose our sequestered reader thinking , not merely of the pleasures of his childhood or of his old age , but of his whole life , past or to ...
... eyes of many readers , perhaps of most , would in all probability improve it . This was , to suppose our sequestered reader thinking , not merely of the pleasures of his childhood or of his old age , but of his whole life , past or to ...
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... serious , or nothing but merry , is but half a man . The lachrymal or the risible organs are wanting in him . He has no business to have eyes or muscles like other men . The universalist alone can put 20 INTRODUCTION .
... serious , or nothing but merry , is but half a man . The lachrymal or the risible organs are wanting in him . He has no business to have eyes or muscles like other men . The universalist alone can put 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... eye and set him thinking of other countries . He will detect old acquaintances in Arabic numerals , and puzzle over a sum or a problem , if only to try and taste the curiosity of it . He is the only man ( except a soldier or a gardener ) ...
... eye and set him thinking of other countries . He will detect old acquaintances in Arabic numerals , and puzzle over a sum or a problem , if only to try and taste the curiosity of it . He is the only man ( except a soldier or a gardener ) ...
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... eyes her fairy throng , and turns her wheel around . Her cap , far whiter than the driven snow , Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron , dy'd in grain , is blue , I trowe , As is the harebell that adorns the field : And in ...
... eyes her fairy throng , and turns her wheel around . Her cap , far whiter than the driven snow , Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron , dy'd in grain , is blue , I trowe , As is the harebell that adorns the field : And in ...
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... eyes to wander leagues around ; And pungent radish , biting infant's tongue ; And plaintain ribb'd , that heals the reaper's wound ; And marjoram sweet , in shepherd's posie found ; And lavender , whose spikes of azure bloom Shall be ...
... eyes to wander leagues around ; And pungent radish , biting infant's tongue ; And plaintain ribb'd , that heals the reaper's wound ; And marjoram sweet , in shepherd's posie found ; And lavender , whose spikes of azure bloom Shall be ...
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