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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... Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a sorry practitioner : so we talk ...
... Reason herself assuring us that it is a fond and foolish yearning to take heed for the worthless tegument , when the immortal spirit it en- shrined has fled . Reason is a stout theorist , but very often a sorry practitioner : so we talk ...
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... reasons with its doll as if it were a rational being , oc- casionally beating the stool over which it has stumbled , and the floor upon which it has fallen , as if they were endued with feeling . " Men are but children of a larger ...
... reasons with its doll as if it were a rational being , oc- casionally beating the stool over which it has stumbled , and the floor upon which it has fallen , as if they were endued with feeling . " Men are but children of a larger ...
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... reason , is peculiar to man , and one may , therefore , fairly assume that they illustrate and sympathize with one another . Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same ...
... reason , is peculiar to man , and one may , therefore , fairly assume that they illustrate and sympathize with one another . Animals were meant to cry , for they have no other mode of expression ; and infants , who are in the same ...
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... - proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed . The youth beside him is his eldest son 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... - proportionate length , is generally represented cover- ed with a helmet , and who , for the same reason , has received from the comic poets the name of the onion- headed . The youth beside him is his eldest son 40 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... reason why this didactic hand- 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 ...
... reason why this didactic hand- 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 ...
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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...