Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... offer to hand her down stairs , unless he can carry three hundred weight , and listen to a ten mi- nutes ' wheezing . Absurd to wear two diamond necklnces , where not one of them could be seen for her three double chins . The daughter ...
... offer to hand her down stairs , unless he can carry three hundred weight , and listen to a ten mi- nutes ' wheezing . Absurd to wear two diamond necklnces , where not one of them could be seen for her three double chins . The daughter ...
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... offer his hand , he roves amid a harem of the imagination , a sort of mental Polygamist . A man may be for- tunate in wedlock , but if he is not- - !!! I certainly thought my wife had some smartness of conversation ANTE AND POST ...
... offer his hand , he roves amid a harem of the imagination , a sort of mental Polygamist . A man may be for- tunate in wedlock , but if he is not- - !!! I certainly thought my wife had some smartness of conversation ANTE AND POST ...
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... offered to give me another . St. Paul may have been a very wise man in his dic- tum about marriage ; but he is still wiser who con- tents himself with doing well , and leaves it to others to do better . 13 " THE LIBRARY . Books , like ...
... offered to give me another . St. Paul may have been a very wise man in his dic- tum about marriage ; but he is still wiser who con- tents himself with doing well , and leaves it to others to do better . 13 " THE LIBRARY . Books , like ...
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... offer up to him the sacrifice of their toils and dangers . Nor is it only in this remote worship that he is undergoing a living apotheosis . The waiters bow down before him : " præsens habebitur divus ” —a present Deity the walls ...
... offer up to him the sacrifice of their toils and dangers . Nor is it only in this remote worship that he is undergoing a living apotheosis . The waiters bow down before him : " præsens habebitur divus ” —a present Deity the walls ...
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... offered a premium for adulterating the commodity of which they are the purchasers . Dilution and dilatation are tempting processes , when there is no standard gauge or measure . Beating out our guineas into gold leaf , and spreading ...
... offered a premium for adulterating the commodity of which they are the purchasers . Dilution and dilatation are tempting processes , when there is no standard gauge or measure . Beating out our guineas into gold leaf , and spreading ...
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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.