Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... possession and posthumous existence ; and how delightful , as well as beneficial . What a beautiful mystery is a child ! How awful in its incomprehensibility ; -how enchant- ing an essence of human nature , with all its virtues full ...
... possession and posthumous existence ; and how delightful , as well as beneficial . What a beautiful mystery is a child ! How awful in its incomprehensibility ; -how enchant- ing an essence of human nature , with all its virtues full ...
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... possessed my imagination with the phan- tasmas of the green - eyed monster . No , I speak of a water - side stroll enacted some four or five thousand years ago by the Egyptian Mercury , the Hermes Trismegistus , or " thrice illustrious ...
... possessed my imagination with the phan- tasmas of the green - eyed monster . No , I speak of a water - side stroll enacted some four or five thousand years ago by the Egyptian Mercury , the Hermes Trismegistus , or " thrice illustrious ...
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... possession , when I might calmly prosecute my studies , and en- joy my own fireside ; but my wife's notions of enjoy- ment were so far from harmonizing with mine , that I found a da capo had commenced , and I was condemn- ed to run ...
... possession , when I might calmly prosecute my studies , and en- joy my own fireside ; but my wife's notions of enjoy- ment were so far from harmonizing with mine , that I found a da capo had commenced , and I was condemn- ed to run ...
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... when it is finished , to cry " Bravo ! charming ! beautiful ! divine ! -Whose composition is that ? Do pray oblige us with it once more . " Let none but the rich man aspire to the possession 108 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... when it is finished , to cry " Bravo ! charming ! beautiful ! divine ! -Whose composition is that ? Do pray oblige us with it once more . " Let none but the rich man aspire to the possession 108 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... possession of a musical wife , for he must expect to pay for the luxury in proportion to its annoyance ; a computa- tion which renders it extravagant indeed ! If ever a Congress of Sovereigns find themselves assembled in my pocket ...
... possession of a musical wife , for he must expect to pay for the luxury in proportion to its annoyance ; a computa- tion which renders it extravagant indeed ! If ever a Congress of Sovereigns find themselves assembled in my pocket ...
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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