The Literary Emporium, Volumes 1-2J.K. Wellman, 1845 - American literature |
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Page 16
... wife , and custom no longer requires that they should con- sume the time by talking over the little nothings with which the fashionable gallant ekes out an evening's conversation . sweetmeats of the honeymoon pall upon the sense , and ...
... wife , and custom no longer requires that they should con- sume the time by talking over the little nothings with which the fashionable gallant ekes out an evening's conversation . sweetmeats of the honeymoon pall upon the sense , and ...
Page 18
... wife . The world acknowledges no real distinction between them - her neighbor's wife is as po- lite , as learned , as wise , as good as she . From whence then shall her superiority come ? From richer silks , costlier furniture , more ...
... wife . The world acknowledges no real distinction between them - her neighbor's wife is as po- lite , as learned , as wise , as good as she . From whence then shall her superiority come ? From richer silks , costlier furniture , more ...
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... wife , who was the daughter of a tradesman named Atchison , he was soon obliged by want to go to Dublin , and throw him- self upon his father . As if to make the burden as great as pos- sible , he took his wife's sister along with him ...
... wife , who was the daughter of a tradesman named Atchison , he was soon obliged by want to go to Dublin , and throw him- self upon his father . As if to make the burden as great as pos- sible , he took his wife's sister along with him ...
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leaving himself and wife destitute , he returned to Scotland , pos- sibly in some hopes of assistance from her relations . How a poor Irishman of poetical tendencies should have thought of set- tling in Edinburgh - at that time not a ...
leaving himself and wife destitute , he returned to Scotland , pos- sibly in some hopes of assistance from her relations . How a poor Irishman of poetical tendencies should have thought of set- tling in Edinburgh - at that time not a ...
Page 70
... wife and child were starving at home ? This is an instance of base selfishness for which no name is as yet invented , and except by another poet [ Savage ] , with some variation of circumstances , was perhaps never prac- tised by the ...
... wife and child were starving at home ? This is an instance of base selfishness for which no name is as yet invented , and except by another poet [ Savage ] , with some variation of circumstances , was perhaps never prac- tised by the ...
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