Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... object , for a series of years , the nation has attained an eminence so fearfully beyond its natural claims and position , that nothing but a continuance of convulsive efforts , even in the midst of distress and exhaustion , can enable ...
... object , for a series of years , the nation has attained an eminence so fearfully beyond its natural claims and position , that nothing but a continuance of convulsive efforts , even in the midst of distress and exhaustion , can enable ...
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... object of their ambition , and appeared to the world to stand upon the summit of human happiness , How long is this fearful tension upon all the nerves and sinews of the country to endure ? What is to be the result 76 GAIETIES AND ...
... object of their ambition , and appeared to the world to stand upon the summit of human happiness , How long is this fearful tension upon all the nerves and sinews of the country to endure ? What is to be the result 76 GAIETIES AND ...
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... object of a pun , he had no compunction in being the author of many , for the support of which assertion the reader may consult his dramatic works . Addison's opinion of this laugh- a cat . provoking practice may be collected from the ...
... object of a pun , he had no compunction in being the author of many , for the support of which assertion the reader may consult his dramatic works . Addison's opinion of this laugh- a cat . provoking practice may be collected from the ...
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... object for Mrs. Doldrum , an inhabitant of Leighton - Buzzard , one of those human screech - owls who prowl about the abodes of misery and death , croaking out dismal tidings , and hovering 134 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... object for Mrs. Doldrum , an inhabitant of Leighton - Buzzard , one of those human screech - owls who prowl about the abodes of misery and death , croaking out dismal tidings , and hovering 134 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... object was so far attained , that I was enabled to retaliate upon fashionable dunces the sneers and taunts which they levelled against city minxes and up- start vulgarians . Among my schoolfellows there were several who feared me , and ...
... object was so far attained , that I was enabled to retaliate upon fashionable dunces the sneers and taunts which they levelled against city minxes and up- start vulgarians . Among my schoolfellows there were several who feared me , 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