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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... soon flew about , Hinting his sconce was deeper red without , Than ' twas within . Perhaps it was , but that's no matter : The Pope , like any other hatter , Makes coverings , not heads ; and this With its new guest agreed so well ...
... soon flew about , Hinting his sconce was deeper red without , Than ' twas within . Perhaps it was , but that's no matter : The Pope , like any other hatter , Makes coverings , not heads ; and this With its new guest agreed so well ...
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... soon be shewn That I don't merit this rebuff : I tapp'd the plate , and that you'll own , Is indigestible enough ; But as to this unlucky fish , With you so strangely out of favour , Not only ' tis a wholesome dish , But one of most ...
... soon be shewn That I don't merit this rebuff : I tapp'd the plate , and that you'll own , Is indigestible enough ; But as to this unlucky fish , With you so strangely out of favour , Not only ' tis a wholesome dish , But one of most ...
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... Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone , exclaim'd : " Isn't your cellar rather damp ? ” Grace being said , quick ...
... Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When Tibbs , in drawling tone , exclaim'd : " Isn't your cellar rather damp ? ” Grace being said , quick ...
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... soon to contemplate the most perfect union of intellectual and personal beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no ...
... soon to contemplate the most perfect union of intellectual and personal beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no ...
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... soon found that all the realities of existence were hidden from their eyes by a dense cloud of pedantry . To them the glories of nature and art were absolutely extinct ; they lived in an atmosphere of quibbles ; and while , in their ...
... soon found that all the realities of existence were hidden from their eyes by a dense cloud of pedantry . To them the glories of nature and art were absolutely extinct ; they lived in an atmosphere of quibbles ; and while , in their ...
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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...