Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... mean time I do most seri- ously and sadly exhort my readers to be comical ; admonishing them , that in these gloomy and puzzling times , when the chances are three to two against the landlord , when the five per cents . are fours 22 ...
... mean time I do most seri- ously and sadly exhort my readers to be comical ; admonishing them , that in these gloomy and puzzling times , when the chances are three to two against the landlord , when the five per cents . are fours 22 ...
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... means were hardly adequate to the purchase of the wreaths and gilding in which the victims of fashion must be tricked out , though I was quite rich enough to make myself happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though ...
... means were hardly adequate to the purchase of the wreaths and gilding in which the victims of fashion must be tricked out , though I was quite rich enough to make myself happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though ...
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... mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and fell into speedy embarrassment , when the world fairly ...
... mean style , although his rich old uncle had lately left him twenty - five thousand pounds ! Frank , a thoughtless fellow , embarked his legacy in an unfortunate speculation , and fell into speedy embarrassment , when the world fairly ...
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... mean the cherubs ' heads , engraved upon our tombs . I love to see them fluttering about , as if they were appointed to keep up the communication , and were ready to convey intelligence from one world to the other . As to the monumental ...
... mean the cherubs ' heads , engraved upon our tombs . I love to see them fluttering about , as if they were appointed to keep up the communication , and were ready to convey intelligence from one world to the other . As to the monumental ...
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... means of a pun . In the ninth book of the Odyssey , that hero informs the Cyclops that his name is Noman ; and when the monster , after having had his eye put out in his sleep , awakes in agony , he thus roars to his companions for ...
... means of a pun . In the ninth book of the Odyssey , that hero informs the Cyclops that his name is Noman ; and when the monster , after having had his eye put out in his sleep , awakes in agony , he thus roars to his companions for ...
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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...