Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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Pàgina 16
... 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 GRAVITIES .
... 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 GRAVITIES .
Pàgina 21
... fears , its joys and miseries , its verse and prose , not an atom farther can be gleaned . And this it is to be a writer of Ephemerides ! Verily , the idea is so dishearten- ing , that I should be tempted to commit some rash act , and ...
... fears , its joys and miseries , its verse and prose , not an atom farther can be gleaned . And this it is to be a writer of Ephemerides ! Verily , the idea is so dishearten- ing , that I should be tempted to commit some rash act , and ...
Pàgina 66
... fear of it . Let it not be imagined that I am seeking to screen any of these unhappy men from the conse- quences of their hallucination ; I am merely assert- ing a singular property of the mind , of which I myself am about to record a ...
... fear of it . Let it not be imagined that I am seeking to screen any of these unhappy men from the conse- quences of their hallucination ; I am merely assert- ing a singular property of the mind , of which I myself am about to record a ...
Pàgina 79
... fear ? and is it not a greater offence when practised on the Lord's highway , ( the churchyard , ) than even on the king's ? Every farthing thus given , beyond what would otherwise have been bestowed , is so much swindled out of our ...
... fear ? and is it not a greater offence when practised on the Lord's highway , ( the churchyard , ) than even on the king's ? Every farthing thus given , beyond what would otherwise have been bestowed , is so much swindled out of our ...
Pàgina 110
... fears , Their tegument of clay outwearing , Done infinitely more than years , To cause the ravage you ' re declaring ? If you yourself no symptoms show Of age - no wrinkles of the spirit : If still for friends your heart can glow , Your ...
... fears , Their tegument of clay outwearing , Done infinitely more than years , To cause the ravage you ' re declaring ? If you yourself no symptoms show Of age - no wrinkles of the spirit : If still for friends your heart can glow , Your ...
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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.