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Page x
... foot . The hamlet lies far from any high road , on a dreary plain which , in wet weather , is often a lake . The lanes would break any jaunting car to pieces ; and there are ruts and sloughs through which the most strongly built wheels ...
... foot . The hamlet lies far from any high road , on a dreary plain which , in wet weather , is often a lake . The lanes would break any jaunting car to pieces ; and there are ruts and sloughs through which the most strongly built wheels ...
Page xiv
... foot through Flanders , France , and Switzerland , playing tunes which everywhere set the peasantry dancing , and which often procured for him a supper and a bed . He wandered as far as Italy . His musical perform- ances , indeed , were ...
... foot through Flanders , France , and Switzerland , playing tunes which everywhere set the peasantry dancing , and which often procured for him a supper and a bed . He wandered as far as Italy . His musical perform- ances , indeed , were ...
Page lxxiii
... foot , partly by demanding at the university to enter the lists as a disputant , by which , according to the custom of many of them , he was entitled to the premium of a crown , when luckily for him his challenge was not accepted ; so ...
... foot , partly by demanding at the university to enter the lists as a disputant , by which , according to the custom of many of them , he was entitled to the premium of a crown , when luckily for him his challenge was not accepted ; so ...
Page lxxxvi
... foot , impressed every one at first sight with an idea of his being a low mechanic , particularly , I believe , a journeyman tailor . A little concurring instance of this I well remember . One day at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , in company ...
... foot , impressed every one at first sight with an idea of his being a low mechanic , particularly , I believe , a journeyman tailor . A little concurring instance of this I well remember . One day at Sir Joshua Reynolds's , in company ...
Page 144
... foot soldier . Growing tired of that employment , he obtained his discharge , and became a scribbler in the newspapers . [ This epitaph is an imitation of the French , ( La Mort du Sieur Etienne , ) or of an epigram in Swift's ...
... foot soldier . Growing tired of that employment , he obtained his discharge , and became a scribbler in the newspapers . [ This epitaph is an imitation of the French , ( La Mort du Sieur Etienne , ) or of an epigram in Swift's ...
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