Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 42
Page 10
... statuaries who chiseled the Apollo Belvedere and Venus de Medici out of blocks of marble , that they had never seen a god or a goddess . We may reasonably doubt whether the author of the Laocoon 10 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
... statuaries who chiseled the Apollo Belvedere and Venus de Medici out of blocks of marble , that they had never seen a god or a goddess . We may reasonably doubt whether the author of the Laocoon 10 GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES .
Page 15
... there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
... there is nothing gloomy in any period or appearance of Nature . To the superficial observer indeed , who has seen the winds of April rocking as it were the cradle of the young flowers , and breathing the breath of HUMAN OSSIFRAGES . 15.
Page 52
... seen , — Then is thy classic tide serene My Helicon and Hippocrene , — MY KETTLE ! MY KETTLE ! For these , and more than I've related , Joys with thy name associated , To thee this verse be dedicated , — MY KETTLE ! THE WIDOW OF THE ...
... seen , — Then is thy classic tide serene My Helicon and Hippocrene , — MY KETTLE ! MY KETTLE ! For these , and more than I've related , Joys with thy name associated , To thee this verse be dedicated , — MY KETTLE ! THE WIDOW OF THE ...
Page 53
... seen in the Champs Elysées , in the same state of mental aliena- tion ; and the Parisians , who allow neither national nor individual sorrows to deprive them of a heartless joke , have long since christened her " The Widow of the Great ...
... seen in the Champs Elysées , in the same state of mental aliena- tion ; and the Parisians , who allow neither national nor individual sorrows to deprive them of a heartless joke , have long since christened her " The Widow of the Great ...
Page 66
... seen them except by candle - light . As for the daughter , thank Heaven , I never danced with her but once ; and my mind's eye still beholds her webby feet paddling down the middle , with the floundering porpus - like fling she gave at ...
... seen them except by candle - light . As for the daughter , thank Heaven , I never danced with her but once ; and my mind's eye still beholds her webby feet paddling down the middle , with the floundering porpus - like fling she gave at ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amid Anacreon ancient animal Apollo appearance Balaam beautiful behold beneath bipeds Boeotia breath celebrated classical cried dæmon dancing dark deity delight earth enjoyment exclaim exegi existence eyes Falstaff fancy feeling flowers France French friends garden gaze glorious golden grave green half hand happy hast head heart Heaven honour human imagination Izaak Walton King kiss leaves light lips live look Lord luxury ment midnight bell mind Molière Mont Blanc moon morning nature never night noble nose nymphs once Ovid Palace of Truth Père La Chaise perpetually PINDARICS plants pleasure poet poetical poor pride racter reader recollect rience Roman Romford round scene seeds seems Shakspeare shower silent skies sleep smile solemn soul spirit taste thee Thessaly thing thou thought tion tomb trees vegetable Voltaire walk waters whence whole wind wonder woods young