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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... true to nature , so life - like ; and it affords such a rare glimpse of connubial bliss and of suburban felicity . There is no mistaking the calling of the original of this next likeness ; piety , it is patent , is his stock - in ...
... true to nature , so life - like ; and it affords such a rare glimpse of connubial bliss and of suburban felicity . There is no mistaking the calling of the original of this next likeness ; piety , it is patent , is his stock - in ...
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... true that Roger Bacon , the learned friar , who died in 1292 , is believed to have been in the habit of using convex glasses to read with ; and it is known that Alexander di Spiner of Pisa , who lived at the same period , and who ...
... true that Roger Bacon , the learned friar , who died in 1292 , is believed to have been in the habit of using convex glasses to read with ; and it is known that Alexander di Spiner of Pisa , who lived at the same period , and who ...
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... true Bacchante fashion among suds and scrubbing - brushes ; but I am not one of them . Whether it be the mental or physical stamina that are lacking , I can't say , possibly both ; but after a day or two I experienced great lameness ...
... true Bacchante fashion among suds and scrubbing - brushes ; but I am not one of them . Whether it be the mental or physical stamina that are lacking , I can't say , possibly both ; but after a day or two I experienced great lameness ...
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... true concerning the perfection of his skill . He was a gigantic negro , and I was as a grasshopper before him . Yet I ventured timidly to inquire - he whitewashed that spring before we were torn up ' - ' if it would be necessary to ...
... true concerning the perfection of his skill . He was a gigantic negro , and I was as a grasshopper before him . Yet I ventured timidly to inquire - he whitewashed that spring before we were torn up ' - ' if it would be necessary to ...
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... true summer - good - by to this ! --- Look down , white stars ! There is nothing to see ; But the world may sound with plummet free ; And cricket , chirp on , but not for me . Can you bring me back the summer fair , And give me ...
... true summer - good - by to this ! --- Look down , white stars ! There is nothing to see ; But the world may sound with plummet free ; And cricket , chirp on , but not for me . Can you bring me back the summer fair , And give me ...
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