Sketches from Life, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1846 |
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Page 156 - What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature! To...
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Page 59 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
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