Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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Página 81
... 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 im ...
... 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 im ...
Página 87
... - sensed , and no- witted Anti - punster , whom I apostrophised in the outset . And now , thou word - measurer , thou line - and - rule mechanic , thou reasoning but not ruminating animal , now PUNS AND PUNSTERS . 87.
... - sensed , and no- witted Anti - punster , whom I apostrophised in the outset . And now , thou word - measurer , thou line - and - rule mechanic , thou reasoning but not ruminating animal , now PUNS AND PUNSTERS . 87.
Página 88
... animal , now that I have produced these authorities , limited to a narrow list from the want of room , not of ma- terials , wilt thou have the ridiculous arrogance to affect contempt for a pun ? That genuine wit which thou pretendest to ...
... animal , now that I have produced these authorities , limited to a narrow list from the want of room , not of ma- terials , wilt thou have the ridiculous arrogance to affect contempt for a pun ? That genuine wit which thou pretendest to ...
Página 105
... animals : such , according to Apollodorus , was the origin of music ; and this ominous ramble of the moon - gazing “ thrice illustrious " was , consequently , the source of all my conjugal infelicity . This is the age for ...
... animals : such , according to Apollodorus , was the origin of music ; and this ominous ramble of the moon - gazing “ thrice illustrious " was , consequently , the source of all my conjugal infelicity . This is the age for ...
Página 122
... animal magnetism , and fortune - tellers , and the efficacy of the Sinking Fund , and the danger of Popery , and innu- merable other phantasms and delusions which poor Posterity will be bound to adopt as gospel , if the seal of time is ...
... animal magnetism , and fortune - tellers , and the efficacy of the Sinking Fund , and the danger of Popery , and innu- merable other phantasms and delusions which poor Posterity will be bound to adopt as gospel , if the seal of time is ...
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