Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... happy . It is too bustling , labo- rious , and excessive . In France pleasure is almost the only business ; in England business is almost the only pleasure , and this is pushed to an extremity that sur- rounds it with hazard and anxiety ...
... happy . It is too bustling , labo- rious , and excessive . In France pleasure is almost the only business ; in England business is almost the only pleasure , and this is pushed to an extremity that sur- rounds it with hazard and anxiety ...
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... happy by the contemplation of his works ; and if I can pre- vail upon a single reader to detach himself for a time from crowds and enthralments , and betake himself to the sunny meadows or the green twilight of the woods , I shall ...
... happy by the contemplation of his works ; and if I can pre- vail upon a single reader to detach himself for a time from crowds and enthralments , and betake himself to the sunny meadows or the green twilight of the woods , I shall ...
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... happy an equivoque upon a damsel's eye , which the profligate Didymus undertook to cure , that Scaliger said he would rather have been author of it than King of Navarre.— From the comic authors a whole galaxy of similar jokes might be ...
... happy an equivoque upon a damsel's eye , which the profligate Didymus undertook to cure , that Scaliger said he would rather have been author of it than King of Navarre.— From the comic authors a whole galaxy of similar jokes might be ...
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... happy island . There is not one of our sterling old English writers from whom we might not glean some specimen of this noble art ; which seems to have attained its golden age in that Augustan æra of our literature - the reign of our ...
... happy island . There is not one of our sterling old English writers from whom we might not glean some specimen of this noble art ; which seems to have attained its golden age in that Augustan æra of our literature - the reign of our ...
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... happy results may be produced by a more rare and difficult process , is either an exemplification of the fox and the sour grapes , or the pride of mental lux- ury , which would quarrel with all gratifications that are cheap and ...
... happy results may be produced by a more rare and difficult process , is either an exemplification of the fox and the sour grapes , or the pride of mental lux- ury , which would quarrel with all gratifications that are cheap and ...
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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