Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 41
... hope to find ; " if we turn in disgust from the painted visages , narrow intellects , and heartless indifference of the actors , while we contem- plate with scorn the tinsel decorations and palpable . trickery which so lately deluded us ...
... hope to find ; " if we turn in disgust from the painted visages , narrow intellects , and heartless indifference of the actors , while we contem- plate with scorn the tinsel decorations and palpable . trickery which so lately deluded us ...
Page 50
... hope to accomplish when you become more copiously satu- rated with Souchong . Writers as well as utterers of good things will be spiritualised and clarified in their intellects , by substituting libations of tea for those of wine ; and ...
... hope to accomplish when you become more copiously satu- rated with Souchong . Writers as well as utterers of good things will be spiritualised and clarified in their intellects , by substituting libations of tea for those of wine ; and ...
Page 61
... hope that the increasing good sense of these well - meaning , but misguided ascetics , will speed- ily get the better of such monkish austerities ; that the time may come , when they may feel persuaded that our Heavenly Father can ...
... hope that the increasing good sense of these well - meaning , but misguided ascetics , will speed- ily get the better of such monkish austerities ; that the time may come , when they may feel persuaded that our Heavenly Father can ...
Page 68
... But , Fanny , do not strive to rob My heart of all that soothes its pain- The mournful hope , that every throb Will make it break for thee ! ON AN INFANT SMILING AS IT AWOKE . AFTER the 68 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Song-To Fanny.
... But , Fanny , do not strive to rob My heart of all that soothes its pain- The mournful hope , that every throb Will make it break for thee ! ON AN INFANT SMILING AS IT AWOKE . AFTER the 68 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES . Song-To Fanny.
Page 79
... hope that his supplications may not have an unpropitious effect on the fate of his missing ship , the Good Intent , on which he is short insured ; * to strengthen which influence , he deplores * An insurance company at Cadiz once took ...
... hope that his supplications may not have an unpropitious effect on the fate of his missing ship , the Good Intent , on which he is short insured ; * to strengthen which influence , he deplores * An insurance company at Cadiz once took ...
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