Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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Pàgina 14
... earth . This circumstance , however , is rather favourable to en- durance ; for a classic poem , like the Phoenix , rises with renewed vigour from the ashes of its language . He who writes in a living tongue , casts a flower upon a ...
... earth . This circumstance , however , is rather favourable to en- durance ; for a classic poem , like the Phoenix , rises with renewed vigour from the ashes of its language . He who writes in a living tongue , casts a flower upon a ...
Pàgina 16
... earth with its miserable tegument of flesh . That which could produce immortality may well aspire to its enjoyment . Ah ! if the " learned Thebans , " of whom we have made mention , had thought of embalming their minds instead of their ...
... earth with its miserable tegument of flesh . That which could produce immortality may well aspire to its enjoyment . Ah ! if the " learned Thebans , " of whom we have made mention , had thought of embalming their minds instead of their ...
Pàgina 29
... earth to com- mence its heavenly career . Of this indefinable charm all women are alike susceptible : it is to them what gunpowder is to warriors ; it levels all distinc- tions , and gives to the plain and the pretty D 2 UGLY WOMEN . 29.
... earth to com- mence its heavenly career . Of this indefinable charm all women are alike susceptible : it is to them what gunpowder is to warriors ; it levels all distinc- tions , and gives to the plain and the pretty D 2 UGLY WOMEN . 29.
Pàgina 39
... earth beneath and the skies above , is rapidly whirled in a close carriage to the ever open and hospitable door of a good tavern . Before the footman or coachman can descend , for the jaunty swing of the private chariot or the rattling ...
... earth beneath and the skies above , is rapidly whirled in a close carriage to the ever open and hospitable door of a good tavern . Before the footman or coachman can descend , for the jaunty swing of the private chariot or the rattling ...
Pàgina 40
... earth , to prepare which for his morning's peru- sal , many fellow creatures of great technical skill , and some of intellectual eminence , have been sleep- less all night . By the side of this record submit- ting the events of the wide ...
... earth , to prepare which for his morning's peru- sal , many fellow creatures of great technical skill , and some of intellectual eminence , have been sleep- less all night . By the side of this record submit- ting the events of the wide ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 168 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Pàgina 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.