Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... the very common error of substituting the cause for the effect . This mutual likeness is the occasion , not the result , of marriage . Every man , like Narcis- • sus , becomes enamoured of the reflection of him- UGLY WOMEN . 27.
... the very common error of substituting the cause for the effect . This mutual likeness is the occasion , not the result , of marriage . Every man , like Narcis- • sus , becomes enamoured of the reflection of him- UGLY WOMEN . 27.
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... effects of the revolution , which , by depressing the upper and elevating the lower classes , has ap- proximated and ameliorated both , rendering the former less arrogant and the latter more indepen- dent . Aristocracy of wealth and ...
... effects of the revolution , which , by depressing the upper and elevating the lower classes , has ap- proximated and ameliorated both , rendering the former less arrogant and the latter more indepen- dent . Aristocracy of wealth and ...
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... effect of confinement , heated rooms , and midnight vigils . E - informed me that the frequenters of these houses were author- ized to call for refreshments of any description , but no one availed himself of the privilege ; the “ auri ...
... effect of confinement , heated rooms , and midnight vigils . E - informed me that the frequenters of these houses were author- ized to call for refreshments of any description , but no one availed himself of the privilege ; the “ auri ...
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... effect my ransom for less than a sover- eign . Thus does this good creature torment me in every possible way : first , by bringing my feelings in contact with all the miseries that have occurred or been trumped up in the whole county ...
... effect my ransom for less than a sover- eign . Thus does this good creature torment me in every possible way : first , by bringing my feelings in contact with all the miseries that have occurred or been trumped up in the whole county ...
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... effect , that he could only exclaim , in the intensity of his ecstasy , ' A per- fect Haunch , by Heaven ! " " You will be at Kemble's sale to - morrow , Sir Peter ? " inquired Blewett . " What ! " 98 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... effect , that he could only exclaim , in the intensity of his ecstasy , ' A per- fect Haunch , by Heaven ! " " You will be at Kemble's sale to - morrow , Sir Peter ? " inquired Blewett . " What ! " 98 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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Página 73 - 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 295 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Página 346 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts: A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Página 103 - To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian polities which never can be drawn into use, will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably.
Página 294 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 154 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Página 223 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 168 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 306 - ... their ferrets behind them. ' One of their honours this night spoke, and in the name of God asked what it was, and why it disturbed them so? No answer was given to this; but the noise ceased for a while, when the spirit came again, and as they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse than itself.