Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Том 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 страници |
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... least merit is left unrewarded , while all those of superior talent acquire wealth as well as fame , it did appear to me that our writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the ...
... least merit is left unrewarded , while all those of superior talent acquire wealth as well as fame , it did appear to me that our writers needed no chartered patrons or royal remunerators . At the first public meeting , however , of the ...
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... least as discordant as their clap- per , I would have all these noisy nuisances converted into euphonious melodists by an immediate decree of the Society . The postman , as a man of letters , will of course receive a licence to bear the ...
... least as discordant as their clap- per , I would have all these noisy nuisances converted into euphonious melodists by an immediate decree of the Society . The postman , as a man of letters , will of course receive a licence to bear the ...
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... least commensurate with his hatred of the Christians ; both equally derogatory to his memory . Of his uncivilized habits and inattention to cleanliness , we may sufficiently judge by his con- descending to joke about the populousness of ...
... least commensurate with his hatred of the Christians ; both equally derogatory to his memory . Of his uncivilized habits and inattention to cleanliness , we may sufficiently judge by his con- descending to joke about the populousness of ...
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... least as much as they had added to his wealth . So it fared with Chilvers . They were willing to overlook his whims and caprices , and even tolerate his old white hat , but there was really no shutting their eyes to the improper nature ...
... least as much as they had added to his wealth . So it fared with Chilvers . They were willing to overlook his whims and caprices , and even tolerate his old white hat , but there was really no shutting their eyes to the improper nature ...
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... least , have concealed the creature , and not have brought her into his own house , and under the very noses of such universally - allowed - to - be - respectable peo- ple as the inhabitants of C— Row . Miss Briggs again took the lead ...
... least , have concealed the creature , and not have brought her into his own house , and under the very noses of such universally - allowed - to - be - respectable peo- ple as the inhabitants of C— Row . Miss Briggs again took the lead ...
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Страница 76 - Would I were dead! if God's good will were so: For what is in this world but grief and woe ? O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Страница 176 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Страница 136 - He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, 70 And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art: For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
Страница 202 - Wars, hitherto the only argument Heroic deem'd ; chief mastery to dissect, With long and tedious havoc, fabled knights, In battles feign'd ; the better fortitude Of patience and heroic martyrdom Unsung ; or to describe races and games, Or tilting furniture, emblazon'd shields, Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knights At joust and tournament ; then marshall'd feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschals; The skill of artifice or office mean, Not that...
Страница 201 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Страница 114 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Страница 345 - Twixt soul and body a divorce, It could not sever man and wife, Because they both liv'd but one life. Peace, good reader, do not weep ; Peace, the lovers are asleep. They, sweet turtles, folded lie In the last knot that love could tie.
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Страница 345 - Because they both lived but one life. Peace, good reader, do not weep, Peace, the lovers are asleep: They, sweet turtles, folded lie In the last knot that love could tie : Let them sleep, let them sleep on, Till this stormy night be gone, And the eternal morrow dawn, Then the curtains will be drawn, And they waken with that light, Whose day shall never sleep in night.