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... birds sing madrigals . " Probably they fall asleep by the rivers , for they never put the madrigals into their periodi- cals . But the effect of their writings is charming . When I want " the sober certainty of ' sleeping bliss " " I ...
... birds sing madrigals . " Probably they fall asleep by the rivers , for they never put the madrigals into their periodi- cals . But the effect of their writings is charming . When I want " the sober certainty of ' sleeping bliss " " I ...
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... bird " I should not have seen any " volumes of vapour in Lothbury " or any " river " in Cheapside . I should simply have trudged to Billingsgate to cheapen a sole for breakfast . But although " early rising " is with me merely the least ...
... bird " I should not have seen any " volumes of vapour in Lothbury " or any " river " in Cheapside . I should simply have trudged to Billingsgate to cheapen a sole for breakfast . But although " early rising " is with me merely the least ...
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... bird , Who lets it hop a little from her hand , And with a silk thread plucks it back again , So loving jealous of its liberty . " Then , having plucked it back again , you sell it for thirty shillings as an English specimen .— [ Q.E.D ...
... bird , Who lets it hop a little from her hand , And with a silk thread plucks it back again , So loving jealous of its liberty . " Then , having plucked it back again , you sell it for thirty shillings as an English specimen .— [ Q.E.D ...
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... birds and cats and rabbits , and waiting for guests who would never come ; its half - consumed bottles of vin ordinaire ( with a napkin deftly coiled round the neck of each bottle ) , which sundry commis voyageurs had left over from ...
... birds and cats and rabbits , and waiting for guests who would never come ; its half - consumed bottles of vin ordinaire ( with a napkin deftly coiled round the neck of each bottle ) , which sundry commis voyageurs had left over from ...
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... birds ' nests , to protect birds ' eggs , and to devote all that destruc- tive energy , for which some use must be found or the boys would explode , to the annihilation of noxious insects . At the last meeting of the Boulogne ...
... birds ' nests , to protect birds ' eggs , and to devote all that destruc- tive energy , for which some use must be found or the boys would explode , to the annihilation of noxious insects . At the last meeting of the Boulogne ...
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