Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... 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 of the ...
... 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 of the ...
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... writers were by no means slow in fol- lowing so notable an example . Plutarch has preserved several of these Pteroenta , or flying words , particu- larly King Philip's celebrated pun to the physician who attended him when his collar ...
... writers were by no means slow in fol- lowing so notable an example . Plutarch has preserved several of these Pteroenta , or flying words , particu- larly King Philip's celebrated pun to the physician who attended him when his collar ...
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... 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 renowned Queen Elizabeth , when clergymen punned in the pulpit ...
... 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 renowned Queen Elizabeth , when clergymen punned in the pulpit ...
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... writing - table , and eloped from the paternal roof . If the gentleman with whom she has taken refuge will return her to her disconsolate owner , he may retain the rope for his own use . Philip the Fifth of Spain fell once into such a ...
... writing - table , and eloped from the paternal roof . If the gentleman with whom she has taken refuge will return her to her disconsolate owner , he may retain the rope for his own use . Philip the Fifth of Spain fell once into such a ...
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... , they distill The rhimes and novels which cajole us , Not from the Heliconian rill , But from the waters of Pactolus . Before this golden age of writers , A Grub - PETER PINDARICS . 113 Peter Pindarics -The Poet and the Alchymist.
... , they distill The rhimes and novels which cajole us , Not from the Heliconian rill , But from the waters of Pactolus . Before this golden age of writers , A Grub - PETER PINDARICS . 113 Peter Pindarics -The Poet and the Alchymist.
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