The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volum 2Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 pàgines |
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Pàgina 23
... rich and free from the domination of others , we are corrupted and oppressed by ourselves . There was some philosophy , there- fore , in the hen - pecked husband , who being asked why he had placed himself so completely under the ...
... rich and free from the domination of others , we are corrupted and oppressed by ourselves . There was some philosophy , there- fore , in the hen - pecked husband , who being asked why he had placed himself so completely under the ...
Pàgina 31
... rich , and everything goes on prosperously . So deeply - rooted in our nature is the tendency to make others responsible for our own mis- deeds , that we lapse into the process almost uncon- sciously . When the clergyman has committed a ...
... rich , and everything goes on prosperously . So deeply - rooted in our nature is the tendency to make others responsible for our own mis- deeds , that we lapse into the process almost uncon- sciously . When the clergyman has committed a ...
Pàgina 37
... rich lowlands , art becomes the principal pursuit ; art leads to riches and luxury , and these to enervation and subjection . On the high and barren places , man's occupations render him more conversant with nature , an inter- course ...
... rich lowlands , art becomes the principal pursuit ; art leads to riches and luxury , and these to enervation and subjection . On the high and barren places , man's occupations render him more conversant with nature , an inter- course ...
Pàgina 38
... rich a literary country as England , the Muses should not attain their due honours . " Impossible ! " cried a whist - playing old lady " They are nine , and of course cannot reckon honours . " MUSIC.- " Music , like man himself ...
... rich a literary country as England , the Muses should not attain their due honours . " Impossible ! " cried a whist - playing old lady " They are nine , and of course cannot reckon honours . " MUSIC.- " Music , like man himself ...
Pàgina 40
... rich and great alone , In diamonds and plumes , who fill the rooms Of some grand abode , And think that a guinea , To hear Paganini Or warbling Rubini , Is well bestow'd ; Since then , only then , they the pleasures share Of science ...
... rich and great alone , In diamonds and plumes , who fill the rooms Of some grand abode , And think that a guinea , To hear Paganini Or warbling Rubini , Is well bestow'd ; Since then , only then , they the pleasures share Of science ...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Volum 2 Horace Smith Visualització completa - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Volum 2 Horace Smith Visualització completa - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish Horace Smith Visualització completa - 1869 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 193 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Pàgina 33 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Pàgina 159 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion 'were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Pàgina 120 - His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed : there is the most warmth without fanaticism, the most rational transport. There is one part of it which I disapprove, and I'd have him correct it ; which is, that ' he who does not feel joy in religion. is far from the kingdom of Heaven ! ' there are many good men whose fear of GOD predominates over their love.
Pàgina 1 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Pàgina 171 - When years, perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement ; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill and industry ; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes are a tax not only upon industry, but upon that industry which feeds mankind ; upon that species of exertion which it is the aim of all wise laws to cherish and promote...
Pàgina 33 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Pàgina 62 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand different things : the...
Pàgina 20 - Then, Sir, you are not of opinion with some who imagine that certain men and certain women are made for each other; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts.
Pàgina 135 - He was always cheerful, and desirous of promoting mirth by a facetious and humorous conversation; he was never soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; "for they are sparks," said he, " which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.