Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... moral affection of children towards their parents standing upon the basis of gratitude , and there is the still stronger affection of parents towards their off- spring , which is a natural instinct implanted for the preservation of the ...
... moral affection of children towards their parents standing upon the basis of gratitude , and there is the still stronger affection of parents towards their off- spring , which is a natural instinct implanted for the preservation of the ...
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... moral world in one indistinguishable chaos . What a volume of wit sparkles in the countenance of that young man , who is listening to their jargon with a sneering smile . Jibes and jeers , jokes , ridicule and burlesque , seem to be ...
... moral world in one indistinguishable chaos . What a volume of wit sparkles in the countenance of that young man , who is listening to their jargon with a sneering smile . Jibes and jeers , jokes , ridicule and burlesque , seem to be ...
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... an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous , and paralytic , and crawl along upon crutches ? Stale • morality , to rake in the grave for dusty mementos 62 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... an intoxication of delight from the mere luxury of existence , can become old , and querulous , and paralytic , and crawl along upon crutches ? Stale • morality , to rake in the grave for dusty mementos 62 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... morality , to rake in the grave for dusty mementos of our evanescency : to hold up a dead man's scull be- fore our ... moral upon our hearts , let us compare man with himself ; let us contemplate the death of the living , -of those who ...
... morality , to rake in the grave for dusty mementos of our evanescency : to hold up a dead man's scull be- fore our ... moral upon our hearts , let us compare man with himself ; let us contemplate the death of the living , -of those who ...
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... of this iron ferula . Who would be made wise by compulsion , and what igno- rance is poltroon enough to surrender at discretion ? Moral lessons may be too pertinaciously obtruded ; we may 70 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . To-day.
... of this iron ferula . Who would be made wise by compulsion , and what igno- rance is poltroon enough to surrender at discretion ? Moral lessons may be too pertinaciously obtruded ; we may 70 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . To-day.
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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 favour fear feel friends give grave hand happy harpsichord Harry haunch head heard heart heaven HIGHWAYMAN honour Houndsditch human Hyænas 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 passions perfect Pericles perpetual Phidias PINDARICS Pitman play pocket poets poor possession present purse 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 56 - spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ! Shakspeare, with his usual insight into human nature, has put the cowardly speech of which this is the commencement, with all its monstrous notions of the Deity, and its abject and grovelling conclusion, into the mouth of
Página 127 - 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. Hamlet. MR. and Mrs. Pitman would have been the best assorted and happiest couple in all
Página 56 - not where,— i To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot!— This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice
Página 297 - 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 231 - had taken all his good things. I am at a greater loss for subjects than an ex-king, and " Never subject long'd to be a king, As I do long and wish to find a subject:" but it is in vain; every thing is stale,
Página 56 - O you beast! • O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch ! Yet there is some force in the earnestness with which he urges the uncertain nature of death. " We know what we are, but we know not what we may be."— And
Página 188 - hut there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more." Tale of a Tub. LET us take off our hats and march with reverent steps, for we are about to enter into a library—that intellectual heaven wherein are assembled all those
Página 276 - THE BOURSE AT PARIS. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—BUYING A BONNET. Plant. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance; The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out.
Página 82 - for his superior faith, received the name of Peter, (which in Greek signifies a stone or rock,) the divine bestower of that appellation exclaimed, " I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church,
Página 174 - ANTE AND POST-NUPTIAL JOURNAL. " When I said I would die a Bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—