Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... delighted in the recovery of my kindly feelings towards my relatives , and in this irre- fragable proof that they wanted nothing but a favour- able opportunity of testifying their affectionate and disinterested regard . So far from any ...
... delighted in the recovery of my kindly feelings towards my relatives , and in this irre- fragable proof that they wanted nothing but a favour- able opportunity of testifying their affectionate and disinterested regard . So far from any ...
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... delight at the verification of her prognostics . Verily , said I in a pet , relations are the most impertinent people upon the face of the earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest ...
... delight at the verification of her prognostics . Verily , said I in a pet , relations are the most impertinent people upon the face of the earth , but I recalled the uncharitable words upon reflection ; and in this flat- tering interest ...
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... delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all the rustic wags and wits Found him a most convenient butt For their good hits ; Though sometimes , as both great and ...
... delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all the rustic wags and wits Found him a most convenient butt For their good hits ; Though sometimes , as both great and ...
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... delight with which minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has ...
... delight with which minds of any sus- ceptibility usually contemplate the beauty of exqui- site proportion --- of the vague apprehension inspired by gigantic bulk --- and of that lingering homage still attaching itself to whatever has ...
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... delight must the ancients , with their exquisite relish for sculpture , have pored upon this chef - d'œuvre of Phidias ! " " Alas ! " replied the figure , " you forget that , al- though now the noblest fragment left , I then occupied ...
... delight must the ancients , with their exquisite relish for sculpture , have pored upon this chef - d'œuvre of Phidias ! " " Alas ! " replied the figure , " you forget that , al- though now the noblest fragment left , I then occupied ...
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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 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