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The same author ( Shakespeare ) tells us that “ Love is merely a madness , and
sometimes deserves a horsewhip . ” . · I very well remember the first theatrical
performance I was taken to witness . The play announced in the bills was “ Love
in a ...
The same author ( Shakespeare ) tells us that “ Love is merely a madness , and
sometimes deserves a horsewhip . ” . · I very well remember the first theatrical
performance I was taken to witness . The play announced in the bills was “ Love
in a ...
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About this time , too , I remember an old gentle . man , one Doctor Collier , who
showed me some large folio volumes of the works of Homer and Virgil : the plates
of the heathen Gods and Goddesses awakened my attention and made me ...
About this time , too , I remember an old gentle . man , one Doctor Collier , who
showed me some large folio volumes of the works of Homer and Virgil : the plates
of the heathen Gods and Goddesses awakened my attention and made me ...
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I remember reading an epilogue in the above paper , said to be spoken at one of
the Theatres , I think , by the then Miss Young . I have never seen or heard of the
epilogue since that time , but I remember two or three lines that formed a portion ...
I remember reading an epilogue in the above paper , said to be spoken at one of
the Theatres , I think , by the then Miss Young . I have never seen or heard of the
epilogue since that time , but I remember two or three lines that formed a portion ...
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If we reflect for a single moment on the artificial state of society as now constituted
and if we remember that terrible decree by which Nature punishes every
deviation from her wholesome laws , shall we wonder that so many ills attend
upon our ...
If we reflect for a single moment on the artificial state of society as now constituted
and if we remember that terrible decree by which Nature punishes every
deviation from her wholesome laws , shall we wonder that so many ills attend
upon our ...
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... more hardily educated , have not yet bidden farewell to the pleasures of youth ,
I remember that at Guernsey , during a very severe winter , I saw the children of
the principal inhabitants of the Island , running about the streets without shoesor
...
... more hardily educated , have not yet bidden farewell to the pleasures of youth ,
I remember that at Guernsey , during a very severe winter , I saw the children of
the principal inhabitants of the Island , running about the streets without shoesor
...
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