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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... took their revenge by instigating the whole rabble beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless figures seemed to enact with a most preposterous alacrity . On the lower benches I beheld grave and reverend ...
... took their revenge by instigating the whole rabble beneath them to worry and beat one an- other to pieces , which the senseless figures seemed to enact with a most preposterous alacrity . On the lower benches I beheld grave and reverend ...
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... took money from his companions for pointing out to them the way to the skies , while he himself kept constantly walking in a contrary direction ; -and in various quarters I con- templated certain old puppets , whom I took to be miners ...
... took money from his companions for pointing out to them the way to the skies , while he himself kept constantly walking in a contrary direction ; -and in various quarters I con- templated certain old puppets , whom I took to be miners ...
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... took delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all the rustic wags and wits Found him a most convenient butt For their good hits ; . Though sometimes , as both great ...
... took delight To make the subject of his fun : For Nature such few brains had put In neighbour Tibbs's occiput , That all the rustic wags and wits Found him a most convenient butt For their good hits ; . Though sometimes , as both great ...
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... took a notion Into his head , one Whitsuntide , That it was more like true devotion To preach extempore ; -he tried : — Succeeded once - twice - thrice - but , lo ! His fourth discourse was not forthcoming ; - Spite of his hawing and ...
... took a notion Into his head , one Whitsuntide , That it was more like true devotion To preach extempore ; -he tried : — Succeeded once - twice - thrice - but , lo ! His fourth discourse was not forthcoming ; - Spite of his hawing and ...
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... took its flight ; Then what must we have suffer'd , who so watch'd them when awake , And nightly on their sleep stole a silent kiss to take ? In every thing there lingers some thought of thee behind , - I feel thy little fingers still ...
... took its flight ; Then what must we have suffer'd , who so watch'd them when awake , And nightly on their sleep stole a silent kiss to take ? In every thing there lingers some thought of thee behind , - I feel thy little fingers still ...
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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...