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... stand At the back of the stage , with torches in hand , Producing effects remarkably fine , With three or four pen'orths of spirits of wine ! You may talk of all this as much as you please , It was much better done by the clever Chinese ...
... stand At the back of the stage , with torches in hand , Producing effects remarkably fine , With three or four pen'orths of spirits of wine ! You may talk of all this as much as you please , It was much better done by the clever Chinese ...
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... stand the report of firearms , is a tolerable proof that warlike courage is far from one of their natural tastes . But we are neither disposed to quarrel with the horse nor to under - rate his merits : we know through him the Greeks won ...
... stand the report of firearms , is a tolerable proof that warlike courage is far from one of their natural tastes . But we are neither disposed to quarrel with the horse nor to under - rate his merits : we know through him the Greeks won ...
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... standing , in a straight line , on either side of the stage , and wearing their imitation worsted fleshings over their street trousers : this latter circumstance gives a varied expression to the natural shape of their legs , which ...
... standing , in a straight line , on either side of the stage , and wearing their imitation worsted fleshings over their street trousers : this latter circumstance gives a varied expression to the natural shape of their legs , which ...
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... stand on , And to abandon - Are very very slow . But , alas ! they quickly began to feel , That the sense of the nation Was mere botheration , And they wished they never had made a Peel . They found , to their cost , That they'd only ...
... stand on , And to abandon - Are very very slow . But , alas ! they quickly began to feel , That the sense of the nation Was mere botheration , And they wished they never had made a Peel . They found , to their cost , That they'd only ...
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... stands , If you keep them all as they grow on your hands , To be thought so much richer , you must be contented . And whenever your wife's confined , If the assessor should make the diskivery , To a larger Income - tax be resigned ...
... stands , If you keep them all as they grow on your hands , To be thought so much richer , you must be contented . And whenever your wife's confined , If the assessor should make the diskivery , To a larger Income - tax be resigned ...
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