Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... a fair complexion , especially when ac- companied with that Corinthian air - that natural nobility , ( if I may so express myself , ) which at once stamps the high born and high bred woman of ANTE AND POST - NUPTIAL JOURNAL .
... a fair complexion , especially when ac- companied with that Corinthian air - that natural nobility , ( if I may so express myself , ) which at once stamps the high born and high bred woman of ANTE AND POST - NUPTIAL JOURNAL .
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... once stamps the high born and high bred woman of quality . If her hand alone were shown to me , I should swear that it belonged to a person of rank . A complexion of this sort testifies the station of its possessor . One sees Olives and ...
... once stamps the high born and high bred woman of quality . If her hand alone were shown to me , I should swear that it belonged to a person of rank . A complexion of this sort testifies the station of its possessor . One sees Olives and ...
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... once they are known . " " " Told of a bon - mot launched by my friend Taylor , on the occasion of my nuptials . Old Lady Dotterel exclaiming that she feared I had been rather wild , and was glad to hear I was going to be married- " So ...
... once they are known . " " " Told of a bon - mot launched by my friend Taylor , on the occasion of my nuptials . Old Lady Dotterel exclaiming that she feared I had been rather wild , and was glad to hear I was going to be married- " So ...
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... once covered with laurel groves and gorgeous fanes , whence Apollo gave out his oracles , is now only broken by the oc- casional crumbling of some fragment from the rocky summit of the two - forked hill , scaring the wolf from his den ...
... once covered with laurel groves and gorgeous fanes , whence Apollo gave out his oracles , is now only broken by the oc- casional crumbling of some fragment from the rocky summit of the two - forked hill , scaring the wolf from his den ...
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... once been old . What laborious days , what watchings by the midnight lamp , what rackings of the brain , what hopes and fears , what long lives of laborious study , are here sublimized into print , and condensed into the 16 GAIETIES AND ...
... once been old . What laborious days , what watchings by the midnight lamp , what rackings of the brain , what hopes and fears , what long lives of laborious study , are here sublimized into print , and condensed into the 16 GAIETIES AND ...
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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.
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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.