Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... played off with infinite adroitness . Mr. Grope , index - maker to one of the first publishers in the Row , astonished us by the al- phabetical accuracy of his genius ; Mr. Grub , who inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine , a most in ...
... played off with infinite adroitness . Mr. Grope , index - maker to one of the first publishers in the Row , astonished us by the al- phabetical accuracy of his genius ; Mr. Grub , who inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine , a most in ...
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... play'd the harp . Well , this is Dandelion , is it ? I sha'n't soon make another visit . George Crump , the inspired ... playing skittles , ere I took my quid , The muses I invoked my work to crown ; " Descend , ye Nine ! " I cried - and ...
... play'd the harp . Well , this is Dandelion , is it ? I sha'n't soon make another visit . George Crump , the inspired ... playing skittles , ere I took my quid , The muses I invoked my work to crown ; " Descend , ye Nine ! " I cried - and ...
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... played once over in fact , and twice in subsequent discussion , they prepared to depart , and I heard the announcement of their servants ' arrival with a pleasure that I could ill conceal . " Mrs. Waddle's maid and umbrella ! " sounded ...
... played once over in fact , and twice in subsequent discussion , they prepared to depart , and I heard the announcement of their servants ' arrival with a pleasure that I could ill conceal . " Mrs. Waddle's maid and umbrella ! " sounded ...
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... play the fool , Which wholesome rule Occurr'd not to our jackanapes , Who consequently found his freaks Lead to innumerable scrapes , And quite as many kicks and tweaks , Which only seem'd to make him faster Try the patience of his ...
... play the fool , Which wholesome rule Occurr'd not to our jackanapes , Who consequently found his freaks Lead to innumerable scrapes , And quite as many kicks and tweaks , Which only seem'd to make him faster Try the patience of his ...
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... play ; but you must have often read , when you were a good little boy , that ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen , ' and cannot have forgotten that the Spartans sometimes made their slaves drunk , and showed them to their children ...
... play ; but you must have often read , when you were a good little boy , that ' Vice to be hated needs but to be seen , ' and cannot have forgotten that the Spartans sometimes made their slaves drunk , and showed them to their children ...
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Página 73 - Ring out, ye crystal Spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 295 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Página 346 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts: A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Página 103 - To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian polities which never can be drawn into use, will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably.
Página 294 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 154 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Página 223 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 168 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 306 - ... their ferrets behind them. ' One of their honours this night spoke, and in the name of God asked what it was, and why it disturbed them so? No answer was given to this; but the noise ceased for a while, when the spirit came again, and as they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse than itself.