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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... tion which might be beneficially revived , if it were likely to operate on the Sovereigns at the next Con- gress of the Holy Alliance . In those barbarous ages we cannot marvel that the body of the deceased might be legally detained for ...
... tion which might be beneficially revived , if it were likely to operate on the Sovereigns at the next Con- gress of the Holy Alliance . In those barbarous ages we cannot marvel that the body of the deceased might be legally detained for ...
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... , and who were solemnly pronouncing sentence of destruc- tion upon others , while they themselves were perpetu- ally exploding into similar nothingness . Here strutted a gay figure in scarlet , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
... , and who were solemnly pronouncing sentence of destruc- tion upon others , while they themselves were perpetu- ally exploding into similar nothingness . Here strutted a gay figure in scarlet , who had not only THE WISDOM OF LAUGHTER . 15.
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... tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the subterranean spring ; and by some such recondite law did the affec- tions of my kindred duly point south - west from Lon- don , and the ...
... tion directs the needle to the north ; the divining rod oscillates in obscure communion with the subterranean spring ; and by some such recondite law did the affec- tions of my kindred duly point south - west from Lon- don , and the ...
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... tion , and that I shall again be able to exclaim with old Dornton in the play --- " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye ...
... tion , and that I shall again be able to exclaim with old Dornton in the play --- " Who would not be a father ? " Is it nothing that but I have de- scribed this happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye ...
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... tion , when the serenity of Nature's silence imparts a congenial balm and tranquillity to the heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or ...
... tion , when the serenity of Nature's silence imparts a congenial balm and tranquillity to the heart . Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or ...
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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...