Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... of the course ; and it has , moreover , the invaluable property of doing execution with out exciting suspicion , like the Irish guns with crooked Com- barrels , made for shooting round a corner . 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... of the course ; and it has , moreover , the invaluable property of doing execution with out exciting suspicion , like the Irish guns with crooked Com- barrels , made for shooting round a corner . 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... round a corner . mon observers admire the sun in its common state , but philosophers find it a thousand times more in- teresting when suffering a partial eclipse ; while the lovers of the picturesque are more smitten with its rising and ...
... round a corner . mon observers admire the sun in its common state , but philosophers find it a thousand times more in- teresting when suffering a partial eclipse ; while the lovers of the picturesque are more smitten with its rising and ...
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... round a picture , and choose various points of view . Facility of production , meanness of mate- rial , and vulgarity of association , have induced us to look down with unmerited contempt upon those waxen busts in the perfumers ' shops ...
... round a picture , and choose various points of view . Facility of production , meanness of mate- rial , and vulgarity of association , have induced us to look down with unmerited contempt upon those waxen busts in the perfumers ' shops ...
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... round his throat , coughed himself out of the house , wishing that he was well over Tower Hill , on his way to Ratcliffe . Mrs. Dubb's shop- man came to claim the last of this quartetto of quizzes ; and I was just congratulating myself ...
... round his throat , coughed himself out of the house , wishing that he was well over Tower Hill , on his way to Ratcliffe . Mrs. Dubb's shop- man came to claim the last of this quartetto of quizzes ; and I was just congratulating myself ...
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... round , Whate'er its changes may have been , May sigh to think that he has found The warmest welcome at an inn . " SHEN STONE . " BLEST as the immortal gods is he , " the youth , who , without the effort of using his own limbs , pro ...
... round , Whate'er its changes may have been , May sigh to think that he has found The warmest welcome at an inn . " SHEN STONE . " BLEST as the immortal gods is he , " the youth , who , without the effort of using his own limbs , pro ...
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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.