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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... possession and posthumous existence ; and how delightful , as well as beneficial . What a beautiful mystery is a child ! How awful in its incomprehensibility ; -how enchant- ing an essence of human nature , with all its virtues 1 full ...
... possession and posthumous existence ; and how delightful , as well as beneficial . What a beautiful mystery is a child ! How awful in its incomprehensibility ; -how enchant- ing an essence of human nature , with all its virtues 1 full ...
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... possessed my imagination with the phan- tasmas of the green - eyed monster . No , I speak of a water - side stroll enacted some four or five thousand years ago by the Egyptian Mercury , the Hermes Trismegistus , or " thrice illustrious ...
... possessed my imagination with the phan- tasmas of the green - eyed monster . No , I speak of a water - side stroll enacted some four or five thousand years ago by the Egyptian Mercury , the Hermes Trismegistus , or " thrice illustrious ...
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... possession , when I might calmly prosecute my studies , and en- joy my own fireside ; but my wife's notions of enjoy- ment were so far froin harmonizing with mine , that I found a da capo had commenced , and I was condemn- ed to run ...
... possession , when I might calmly prosecute my studies , and en- joy my own fireside ; but my wife's notions of enjoy- ment were so far froin harmonizing with mine , that I found a da capo had commenced , and I was condemn- ed to run ...
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... when it is finished , to cry " Bravo ! charming ! beautiful ! divine ! -Whose composition is that ? Do pray oblige us with it once more . " Let none but the rich man aspire to the possession 108 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... when it is finished , to cry " Bravo ! charming ! beautiful ! divine ! -Whose composition is that ? Do pray oblige us with it once more . " Let none but the rich man aspire to the possession 108 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... possession of a musical wife , for he must expect to pay for the luxury in proportion to its annoyance ; a computa- tion which renders it extravagant indeed ! If ever a Congress of Sovereigns find themselves assembled in my pocket ...
... possession of a musical wife , for he must expect to pay for the luxury in proportion to its annoyance ; a computa- tion which renders it extravagant indeed ! If ever a Congress of Sovereigns find themselves assembled in my pocket ...
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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 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
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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...