The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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... matter what amount of admiration and study ; the red - velvet cushion is , we are convinced , emblematic of the intense fervor of the female's devotion , which we would here suggest , though not positively assert , might otherwise be ...
... matter what amount of admiration and study ; the red - velvet cushion is , we are convinced , emblematic of the intense fervor of the female's devotion , which we would here suggest , though not positively assert , might otherwise be ...
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... matter - of - fact stand - point , to be ex- actly compatible with each other ; however , waiving that slight discrepancy , we must say , that the flower before us has evidently determined not to pine on its stem , or to blush unseen ...
... matter - of - fact stand - point , to be ex- actly compatible with each other ; however , waiving that slight discrepancy , we must say , that the flower before us has evidently determined not to pine on its stem , or to blush unseen ...
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... matter how incredulous , that the gentleman is as near the perfection of gentility as any ambitious young man would have a right to expect to be after a course of pro- found study , and industrious practice in dandyism . He is ...
... matter how incredulous , that the gentleman is as near the perfection of gentility as any ambitious young man would have a right to expect to be after a course of pro- found study , and industrious practice in dandyism . He is ...
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... matter - of - fact , and fat , old ladies , and ladies whose age is doubtful , and ladies whose age is unquestionable . We have seen very weighty old gentlemen , and very lean young gentlemen , and a great many who had nothing of the ...
... matter - of - fact , and fat , old ladies , and ladies whose age is doubtful , and ladies whose age is unquestionable . We have seen very weighty old gentlemen , and very lean young gentlemen , and a great many who had nothing of the ...
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... matter , he took his departure , and I returned to my manuscript in a singularly chastened frame of mind . All of you have read that story in the ' Badger , ' and you can now account for the latent melancholy of the latter portion . And ...
... matter , he took his departure , and I returned to my manuscript in a singularly chastened frame of mind . All of you have read that story in the ' Badger , ' and you can now account for the latent melancholy of the latter portion . And ...
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