Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volym 2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 sidor |
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volym 2 Horace Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volym 2 Horace Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volym 2 Horace Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1825 |
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Sida 56 - spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ! Shakspeare, with his usual insight into human nature, has put the cowardly speech of which this is the commencement, with all its monstrous notions of the Deity, and its abject and grovelling conclusion, into the mouth of
Sida 127 - airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee. Hamlet. MR. and Mrs. Pitman would have been the best assorted and happiest couple in all
Sida 56 - not where,— i To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot!— This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice
Sida 297 - Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.
Sida 231 - had taken all his good things. I am at a greater loss for subjects than an ex-king, and " Never subject long'd to be a king, As I do long and wish to find a subject:" but it is in vain; every thing is stale,
Sida 56 - O you beast! • O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch ! Yet there is some force in the earnestness with which he urges the uncertain nature of death. " We know what we are, but we know not what we may be."— And
Sida 188 - hut there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more." Tale of a Tub. LET us take off our hats and march with reverent steps, for we are about to enter into a library—that intellectual heaven wherein are assembled all those
Sida 276 - THE BOURSE AT PARIS. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—BUYING A BONNET. Plant. Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance; The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out.
Sida 82 - for his superior faith, received the name of Peter, (which in Greek signifies a stone or rock,) the divine bestower of that appellation exclaimed, " I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church,
Sida 174 - ANTE AND POST-NUPTIAL JOURNAL. " When I said I would die a Bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—