Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly holding both his sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at ...
... become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly holding both his sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at ...
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... becoming a slave to my own establishment , and of sacrificing the reality of enjoyment for its appearances , I do not ... become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- 1 cent than my ...
... becoming a slave to my own establishment , and of sacrificing the reality of enjoyment for its appearances , I do not ... become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- 1 cent than my ...
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... become mine , were eager to distinguish themselves in this contest of love . Two of them have affectionately consented to become inmates in our house , and I am besides allowed to pay for the schooling of two dear little boys , whom I ...
... become mine , were eager to distinguish themselves in this contest of love . Two of them have affectionately consented to become inmates in our house , and I am besides allowed to pay for the schooling of two dear little boys , whom I ...
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... emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the brightest poet of his age , had not the follies and vices of Athens compelled him to become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 43.
... emanations from the muse within , which would have made him the brightest poet of his age , had not the follies and vices of Athens compelled him to become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from THE STATUE OF THESEUS . 43.
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... become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from my communicative statue , that this was Aristophanes , watching both Socrates and the sophists , that he might burlesque them in his comedy of the Clouds ; and that his two companions ...
... become its severest comic satirist . I learnt from my communicative statue , that this was Aristophanes , watching both Socrates and the sophists , that he might burlesque them in his comedy of the Clouds ; and that his two companions ...
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admiration ancient animal Aspasia Bampfylde Moore Carew beauty bells beneath better Blue-stocking body catachresis celebrated charm confess countenance cried dark dead dear death Deity delight devil dinner earth ejaculated Epimenides exclaimed existence eyes face Fairlop fate fear feel fortune friends give grave hand happy harpsichord Harry haunch head heard heart heaven HIGHWAYMAN honour Houndsditch human immortal jokes lady laugh laughter live London look marriage mean ment mind misanthropy moral morning mouth mutton nature neighbour ness never Newgate Calendar night No-man nose o'er observed once Parthenon pass perfect Pericles perpetual Phidias PINDARICS play pocket poets poor possession present purse Rabelais replied Romulus and Remus seems silence Sir Guy Socrates soul spirit tears thee Theseus thing thou thought tion Twas whole wife words write Zounds
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Página 263 - Ring out, ye crystal Spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 261 - Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared.
Página 8 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Página 297 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 56 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 196 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Página 127 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 81 - Paul, though in a different sense, he dies daily, and only lives in the night. He deforms nature, while he intends to adorn her, like Indians that hang jewels in their lips and noses. His ears are perpetually drilled with a fiddlestick. He endures pleasures with less patience than other men do their pains" (Butler's Posthumous Works, vol.
Página 204 - Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins : thy neck is as a tower of ivory. Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Página 335 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...