The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volumen1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 páginas |
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... England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution of abandoning his regular professional pursuits , then highly profitable , and of ...
... England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution of abandoning his regular professional pursuits , then highly profitable , and of ...
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... England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution of abandoning his regular professional pursuits , then highly profitable , and of ...
... England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution of abandoning his regular professional pursuits , then highly profitable , and of ...
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... England . A Gre- cian temple , many of whose ornaments are heathen symbols , is not the best model for a Christian church , which is but a solecism in stone when thus paganized ; nor can I 4 * HEADS AND TALES . 41 . ...
... England . A Gre- cian temple , many of whose ornaments are heathen symbols , is not the best model for a Christian church , which is but a solecism in stone when thus paganized ; nor can I 4 * HEADS AND TALES . 41 . ...
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... England , if we are to judge by the present majority of the House of Lords , the term seems to have fairly " turned its back upon itself , " and to have become the antithesis to its original import ; even as beldam ( or belle dame ...
... England , if we are to judge by the present majority of the House of Lords , the term seems to have fairly " turned its back upon itself , " and to have become the antithesis to its original import ; even as beldam ( or belle dame ...
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... England , first , by withdrawing encouragement from our countrymen and contemporaries , and , secondly , by injuring their taste in holding up as models for imitation , not the paintings of nature , but old Continental pictures , which ...
... England , first , by withdrawing encouragement from our countrymen and contemporaries , and , secondly , by injuring their taste in holding up as models for imitation , not the paintings of nature , but old Continental pictures , which ...
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Página 48 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Página 170 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 50 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Página 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Página 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Página 135 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Página 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Página 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.