Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 pages |
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... and all the Gods who give life to men , receive me , and admit me into the society of the immortal ones ; for as long as I resided " Bating the latter in this world I religiously worshipped the ( 5 ) On the Choice of a Burial Place.
... and all the Gods who give life to men , receive me , and admit me into the society of the immortal ones ; for as long as I resided " Bating the latter in this world I religiously worshipped the ( 5 ) On the Choice of a Burial Place.
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... at the Court of Darius , when that monarch lost his favourite wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... at the Court of Darius , when that monarch lost his favourite wife , he promised to restore her to life , provided they would give him the names of three men who had never known adversity , that he might 16 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... give the experiment a frequent trial . It just occurs to me , that I ought to have begun my essay with a definition of laughter , and an argute inquiry into its causes ; but it will come in as well at the end , and perhaps a ...
... give the experiment a frequent trial . It just occurs to me , that I ought to have begun my essay with a definition of laughter , and an argute inquiry into its causes ; but it will come in as well at the end , and perhaps a ...
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... gives a poignant zest to the ebullition . Talking of incongruities puts me in mind of the steam - boat , and of a conversation between two parties , one conversing of their children , the other settling the ingredients of a wedding ...
... gives a poignant zest to the ebullition . Talking of incongruities puts me in mind of the steam - boat , and of a conversation between two parties , one conversing of their children , the other settling the ingredients of a wedding ...
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... give a fuller developement to their cordial and genuine attachment . An old fellow - collegian left me a considerable legacy , upon the strength of which I married a lady of great respectability and congenial age , with whom I had been ...
... give a fuller developement to their cordial and genuine attachment . An old fellow - collegian left me a considerable legacy , upon the strength of which I married a lady of great respectability and congenial age , with whom I had been ...
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Page 263 - 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.
Page 261 - Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared.
Page 8 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Page 297 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 56 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 196 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Page 127 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 81 - Paul, though in a different sense, he dies daily, and only lives in the night. He deforms nature, while he intends to adorn her, like Indians that hang jewels in their lips and noses. His ears are perpetually drilled with a fiddlestick. He endures pleasures with less patience than other men do their pains" (Butler's Posthumous Works, vol.
Page 204 - Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins : thy neck is as a tower of ivory. Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim : thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Page 335 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...