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...re it passes for coin of value, the society has reached a high refinement: Arcadian by the aesthetic route. Observation of Willoughby was not, as Miss... ...us breakfast in the front parlour of the best hotel of the place they call Arcadia. And how about your bed last night?” “Pretty middling.” “Hard, was ...

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...pies, gaping at the flies like tithe calves; clapping down their ears like Arcadian asses at the melody of musicians, who with their very countenances... ...g dipped by Jove’s priest in the Agrian fountain on the Lycian mountain in Arcadia, in time of drought raised vapours which gath- ered into clouds, an... ...aping and yawn- ing at the flies, and pricking up their lugs, like so many Arcadian asses, at the striking up of the music; thus silently giving to un... ... rarely for their good founders, that is the truth on’t. You never saw any Arcadian birds mumble more fairly than they do over a dish when they see th... ...n, none of the firking. Thus melodiously sing- ing (for, as you know, that Arcadian bird’s note is very har- monious) he came to the young gentleman o... ...y a head-bailiff, as Appian, Heliodorus, Athenaeus, Porphyrius, Pancrates, Arcadian, Numenius, Possidonius, Ovidius, Oppianus, Olympius, Seleucus, Le-...

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...aid Meta; “but it is so differ- ent from what I thought!” “ Ah! you had an Arcadia of good little girls in straw hats, such as I see in Blanche’s litt...