Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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Página 127 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee 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.
Página 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.
Página 56 - a dastard, who would purchase a pittance of life with his sister's dishonour.—Well might she exclaim— ———— 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
Página 261 - offer up their general thanksgivings. Nothing can be more natural than the words which Cowper has put into the mouth of Alexander Selkirk, to express the desolation and solitude of the uninhabited island on which he had been cast: " The sound of the church-going bell, These valleys and rocks never heard; Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a
Página 231 - our forefathers had no other book but the score and tally, thou hast caused Printing to be; and contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill,
Página 287 - modes, Papa, Mamma, Miss Harriet, and Carlo, to settle the dispute in the best manner they could. MEMOIRS OF A HAUNCH OF MUTTON. "I, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you; so you may continue and laugh at nothing still."—The Tempest. THIS is the age for Memoirs, particularly of royalty. Napoleon is making almost as much noise after
Página 276 - my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. Somer. And on my side it is so well apparell'd, So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. Henry
Página 87 - may be collected from the 440th Number of the Spectator, wherein he describes a society, who had established among themselves an infirmary for the cure of all defects of temper and infractions of good manners. " After dinner a very honest fellow chancing to let a pun fall from him, his neighbour cried out,
Página 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,
Página 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.—