Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... feeling an inde- scribable awe leading me , almost unconsciously , to take off my hat , and look up to it with silent reve ... feel it so intensely as yesterday , when I pored upon every limb and muscle of this masterpiece of anti- quity ...
... feeling an inde- scribable awe leading me , almost unconsciously , to take off my hat , and look up to it with silent reve ... feel it so intensely as yesterday , when I pored upon every limb and muscle of this masterpiece of anti- quity ...
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... feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ? " Treacherous knaves ! " exclaimed the figure ; " in their private orgies , and symposia , they make a mock of every thing holy , and would trample on all the gods of ...
... feel the horror which they profess at such trifling peccadilloes ? " Treacherous knaves ! " exclaimed the figure ; " in their private orgies , and symposia , they make a mock of every thing holy , and would trample on all the gods of ...
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... feel so acutely the vanity of life , as when , in a palsied and superannuated old woman , I was told I beheld the celebrated beauty upon whom Lord Ches- terfield had written the well - known song --- Fair Kitty , beautiful and young ...
... feel so acutely the vanity of life , as when , in a palsied and superannuated old woman , I was told I beheld the celebrated beauty upon whom Lord Ches- terfield had written the well - known song --- Fair Kitty , beautiful and young ...
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... feel thy little fingers still round my own entwined ; Not a night but in my dreams I can hear thy little cries ; I start awake - and think - and the tears suffuse my eyes . Thy trinkets , toys , and dresses , we are forced to hide them ...
... feel thy little fingers still round my own entwined ; Not a night but in my dreams I can hear thy little cries ; I start awake - and think - and the tears suffuse my eyes . Thy trinkets , toys , and dresses , we are forced to hide them ...
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... feel their influence . What he who runs may read , nobody will stop to consider ; which is probably the reason why this didactic hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age ...
... feel their influence . What he who runs may read , nobody will stop to consider ; which is probably the reason why this didactic hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age ...
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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