Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... hand of Providence Wink at your impious expressions.- The profligate thinks vengeance dead , And in his fancied safety chuckles , - But Atheism's hydra head Shall have a rap upon the knuckles ; — The never - blushing cheek of vice Shall ...
... hand of Providence Wink at your impious expressions.- The profligate thinks vengeance dead , And in his fancied safety chuckles , - But Atheism's hydra head Shall have a rap upon the knuckles ; — The never - blushing cheek of vice Shall ...
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... him , almost every hour ; and when his gentle hand draws the curtain around us , and covers us up in our narrow bed , what is it but to fall asleep , and to have a little longer to wait DEATH - POSTHUMOUS MEMORIALS - CHILDREN . 55.
... him , almost every hour ; and when his gentle hand draws the curtain around us , and covers us up in our narrow bed , what is it but to fall asleep , and to have a little longer to wait DEATH - POSTHUMOUS MEMORIALS - CHILDREN . 55.
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... hand to wrench them from us , and almost tear up our hearts by the roots in the struggle ! Paternity is as garrulous as old age . God help the reader , when both are combined ! Under such cir- cumstances , it is hardly fair to visit him ...
... hand to wrench them from us , and almost tear up our hearts by the roots in the struggle ! Paternity is as garrulous as old age . God help the reader , when both are combined ! Under such cir- cumstances , it is hardly fair to visit him ...
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... hand of death came to pluck thee from our arms . No stranger without shrinking could have seen thine eyes , still bright , open without winking , when thy spirit took its flight ; Then what must we have suffer'd , who so watch'd them ...
... hand of death came to pluck thee from our arms . No stranger without shrinking could have seen thine eyes , still bright , open without winking , when thy spirit took its flight ; Then what must we have suffer'd , who so watch'd them ...
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... hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age who above all things dislike an apophthegm , which , preventing the complacent exercise of their own facul- ties , deprives them ...
... hand- writing on the wall has ever proved an unavailing warning . Besides , there are many of maturer age who above all things dislike an apophthegm , which , preventing the complacent exercise of their own facul- ties , deprives them ...
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