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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... live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1825 . LONDON : PRINTED BY S ...
... live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Is but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write Both triflers . " HURDIS . LONDON : HENRY COLBURN , NEW BURLINGTON STREET . 1825 . LONDON : PRINTED BY S ...
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... live their wonted fires . " How can we conceive of ourselves as inanimate , when it is much more difficult than is generally ima- gined to believe in the insensibility of external matter , to which we are perpetually attempting to ...
... live their wonted fires . " How can we conceive of ourselves as inanimate , when it is much more difficult than is generally ima- gined to believe in the insensibility of external matter , to which we are perpetually attempting to ...
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... live and die . Argosies , with their golden freightage spangling the level sand - statues upon which the patient Grecian exhausted his divine art , armour and diamonds , spices and rich robes , gums and perfumes ; ancient galleys , and ...
... live and die . Argosies , with their golden freightage spangling the level sand - statues upon which the patient Grecian exhausted his divine art , armour and diamonds , spices and rich robes , gums and perfumes ; ancient galleys , and ...
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... live . " Laugh and grow fat " may be a questionable maxim , but " laugh and grow old " is an indisputable one ; for so long as we can laugh at all , we shall never die unless it be of laughing . As to performing this operation in one's ...
... live . " Laugh and grow fat " may be a questionable maxim , but " laugh and grow old " is an indisputable one ; for so long as we can laugh at all , we shall never die unless it be of laughing . As to performing this operation in one's ...
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... live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you prefer walking ; and for numerous domestics , who invariably do less ...
... live for visitants who call upon you to kill time and dine with you , to share your bottle , not your heart ; -for horses whom you hate to employ , if , like me , you prefer walking ; and for numerous domestics , who invariably do less ...
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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...