Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... play at bowls , Must expect rubbers ! ” The Parson at Fault . A COUNTRY parson took a notion Into his head , one Whitsuntide , That it was more like true devotion To preach extempore ; -he tried : - Succeeded once twice thrice - but ...
... play at bowls , Must expect rubbers ! ” The Parson at Fault . A COUNTRY parson took a notion Into his head , one Whitsuntide , That it was more like true devotion To preach extempore ; -he tried : - Succeeded once twice thrice - but ...
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... play " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye , my darlings ; come to my arms at once ! While I have been wiping my children's ...
... play " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye , my darlings ; come to my arms at once ! While I have been wiping my children's ...
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... play upon words . Will nothing but pure wit serve thy turn , most sapient Sir ? Well , then , set us the example— " Lay on , Macduff , And damn'd be he that first cries , Hold ! enough ! " How , -dumb - founded ? Not quite ; -methinks I ...
... play upon words . Will nothing but pure wit serve thy turn , most sapient Sir ? Well , then , set us the example— " Lay on , Macduff , And damn'd be he that first cries , Hold ! enough ! " How , -dumb - founded ? Not quite ; -methinks I ...
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... play upon words equivalent to a pun . When Simon Bar- Jona , 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 ...
... play upon words equivalent to a pun . When Simon Bar- Jona , 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 ...
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... playing upon the names of both parties . Martial was an accomplished punster ; and Ovid not only quibbled upon words , but meta- morphosed them into a thousand phantasies and vaga- ries . The same valuable privilege formed the staple ...
... playing upon the names of both parties . Martial was an accomplished punster ; and Ovid not only quibbled upon words , but meta- morphosed them into a thousand phantasies and vaga- ries . The same valuable privilege formed the staple ...
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Página 322 - 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...
Página 253 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 255 - 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 6 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Página 54 - 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 190 - 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 123 - 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 79 - ... a personage of whom it might be pronounced, as Butler said of the Duke of Buckingham, that he endures pleasures with less patience than other men do their pains ? — -a staid, important, dogged, square-rigged, mathematicalminded sort of an animal? Question him, and I will lay my head to yours (for I like to take the odds), that whatever tolerance he may be brought to admit for other deviations from the right line of gravity, he will profess a truculent and implacable hatred of that most kind-hearted,...
Página 80 - Friends, Noman kills me; Noman in the hour Of sleep, oppresses me with fraudful power.' 'If no man hurt thee, but the hand divine Inflict disease, it fits thee to resign: To Jove or to thy father Neptune pray.
Página 198 - 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.