Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... hour , what human soul could live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Js but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . Philadelphia : H. C. CAREY & 1. LEA , R. H. ...
... hour , what human soul could live ? We trifle all , and he who best deserves Js but a trifler . What art thou whose eye Follows my pen , or what am I that write ? Both triflers . " HURDIS . Philadelphia : H. C. CAREY & 1. LEA , R. H. ...
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... hour ; and , as I was determined to exercise my martial authority , I went out without her . Is it not astonishing that a person of the smallest reflection or good sense should stubbornly contend about such a mere trifle ? She has a ...
... hour ; and , as I was determined to exercise my martial authority , I went out without her . Is it not astonishing that a person of the smallest reflection or good sense should stubbornly contend about such a mere trifle ? She has a ...
Pàgina 42
... hour , and placed at the absolute disposal of the humblest individual in society . So much homage and luxury , alike flattering to the spirit and the sense , form a dangerous posses- sion to those who are not habituated to their enjoy ...
... hour , and placed at the absolute disposal of the humblest individual in society . So much homage and luxury , alike flattering to the spirit and the sense , form a dangerous posses- sion to those who are not habituated to their enjoy ...
Pàgina 60
... hours more profitably , I stated my intention of appropriating a portion of it to her use in the purchase of a handsome birth- day present . In a moment the blood rushed to her face , and as quickly receded , leaving it of an ashy ...
... hours more profitably , I stated my intention of appropriating a portion of it to her use in the purchase of a handsome birth- day present . In a moment the blood rushed to her face , and as quickly receded , leaving it of an ashy ...
Pàgina 61
... hour's sitting , had the singu- lar good luck to return home a winner of nearly as much as I had gained on the first . Success for once made me moderate ; in the humility of my prosper- ous play , I resolved only to continue till I had ...
... hour's sitting , had the singu- lar good luck to return home a winner of nearly as much as I had gained on the first . Success for once made me moderate ; in the humility of my prosper- ous play , I resolved only to continue till I had ...
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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.