Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... sides of the high roads , but this varied according to the taste of the individual . Propertius gave the preference to a retired spot . Dii faciant , mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti , Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter . While ...
... sides of the high roads , but this varied according to the taste of the individual . Propertius gave the preference to a retired spot . Dii faciant , mea ne terra locet ossa frequenti , Qua facit assiduo tramite vulgus iter . While ...
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... sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at his assailants . I am too old for laughing , they tell me ; but it is by laughing that I have lived to grow old , and they may as well take my life ...
... sides , and is therefore inca- pable of other self - defence than that of sniggering at his assailants . I am too old for laughing , they tell me ; but it is by laughing that I have lived to grow old , and they may as well take my life ...
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... sides . ( The very hieroglyphic makes one snigger , so festive , social , and joyous is its character . ) And secondly , its delicious alchymy not only con- verts a tear into the quintessence of merriment , and makes wrinkles themselves ...
... sides . ( The very hieroglyphic makes one snigger , so festive , social , and joyous is its character . ) And secondly , its delicious alchymy not only con- verts a tear into the quintessence of merriment , and makes wrinkles themselves ...
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... sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tædium vitæ ; and he loves his ...
... sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tædium vitæ ; and he loves his ...
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... side - window and a bow : Next to it was the Milkman's yard , whose cows When there were neither grains nor chaff to browse , Under the very casement stood to low . That was a pleasant window altogether , It raked the road a mile or ...
... side - window and a bow : Next to it was the Milkman's yard , whose cows When there were neither grains nor chaff to browse , Under the very casement stood to low . That was a pleasant window altogether , It raked the road a mile or ...
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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...