Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... course of true love never does run smooth , " when you are soliloquizing the moon . I protest I think the lines very mellifluous and heart - rending , and altogether Lady's Magazinish . My darling Julia tells me she doats upon poetry ...
... course of true love never does run smooth , " when you are soliloquizing the moon . I protest I think the lines very mellifluous and heart - rending , and altogether Lady's Magazinish . My darling Julia tells me she doats upon poetry ...
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... course the whole of the female population was pos- sessed by all the Furies . Marmorea ( such was the name of the animated statue ) was no Diana in the flesh , whatever she might have been in the marble : if the scandalous chronicles of ...
... course the whole of the female population was pos- sessed by all the Furies . Marmorea ( such was the name of the animated statue ) was no Diana in the flesh , whatever she might have been in the marble : if the scandalous chronicles of ...
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... course ; and it has , moreover , the invaluable property of doing execution with out exciting suspicion , like the Irish guns with crooked Com- barrels , made for shooting round a corner . 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... course ; and it has , moreover , the invaluable property of doing execution with out exciting suspicion , like the Irish guns with crooked Com- barrels , made for shooting round a corner . 26 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
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... course was of very rare occurrence , his deposit was doubled I know not how many times . The odd or even declared their own fate : they were lost or doubled . This altar of chance had but few votaries ; and merely stopping a moment to ...
... course was of very rare occurrence , his deposit was doubled I know not how many times . The odd or even declared their own fate : they were lost or doubled . This altar of chance had but few votaries ; and merely stopping a moment to ...
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... course " bonnet " must mean bonnet ; and declaring that , in her opi- nion , the Parisians in general spoke very bad French , not at all like Mrs. Harrison at Chelsea . Carlo , meanwhile , was whisking about among the young ladies , who ...
... course " bonnet " must mean bonnet ; and declaring that , in her opi- nion , the Parisians in general spoke very bad French , not at all like Mrs. Harrison at Chelsea . Carlo , meanwhile , was whisking about among the young ladies , who ...
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Страница 73 - 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.
Страница 295 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Страница 346 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts: A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Страница 103 - To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian polities which never can be drawn into use, will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably.
Страница 294 - 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 154 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Страница 223 - 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 168 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Страница 306 - ... their ferrets behind them. ' One of their honours this night spoke, and in the name of God asked what it was, and why it disturbed them so? No answer was given to this; but the noise ceased for a while, when the spirit came again, and as they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse than itself.