Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... turns towards the luminary whence it derives its name ; lunatics preserve an inex- plicable sympathy with the moon ; an occult attrac- tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the ...
... turns towards the luminary whence it derives its name ; lunatics preserve an inex- plicable sympathy with the moon ; an occult attrac- tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the ...
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... turn back , as to the sole , immutable , and eternal standards of purity and perfection . Fancy trans- ported me to the period when the Parthenon was not yet completed ; and methought that a ticket pre- sented to me by Pananus , the ...
... turn back , as to the sole , immutable , and eternal standards of purity and perfection . Fancy trans- ported me to the period when the Parthenon was not yet completed ; and methought that a ticket pre- sented to me by Pananus , the ...
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... turning to the statue , so deep and sensitive a reverence for religion , as to feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ? " Treacherous knaves ! " exclaimed the figure ; " in their private orgies , and symposia ...
... turning to the statue , so deep and sensitive a reverence for religion , as to feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ? " Treacherous knaves ! " exclaimed the figure ; " in their private orgies , and symposia ...
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... turns its back upon my speech ; — You fear my words- " Just then , alas ! They did seem anxious to prevent ' em , For some one threw a muddy mass Into his eye with such momentum , That by the well - directed sally ' Twas closed and seal ...
... turns its back upon my speech ; — You fear my words- " Just then , alas ! They did seem anxious to prevent ' em , For some one threw a muddy mass Into his eye with such momentum , That by the well - directed sally ' Twas closed and seal ...
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... turn , and must make room for others.- Ay , but to die , and go we not where , — 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 ...
... turn , and must make room for others.- Ay , but to die , and go we not where , — 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 ...
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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