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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... Lord B. is a feminine person . What can be expected but irregularity and disturbance , when our grammar is in such a state of anarchy ? This comes of Reform !! Ah ! it is to be feared that we shall none of us have the consolation of ...
... Lord B. is a feminine person . What can be expected but irregularity and disturbance , when our grammar is in such a state of anarchy ? This comes of Reform !! Ah ! it is to be feared that we shall none of us have the consolation of ...
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... Lord Nelson had not washed his hands for the last eight years of his life . Alas ! upon what trifles may our reputation for cleanliness depend ! Even a foreign accent may ruin us . In a trial , where a German and his wife were giving ...
... Lord Nelson had not washed his hands for the last eight years of his life . Alas ! upon what trifles may our reputation for cleanliness depend ! Even a foreign accent may ruin us . In a trial , where a German and his wife were giving ...
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... Lord loveth he chasteneth . " Many a man in losing his fortune has found himself , and been ruined into salvation ; for though God de- mands the whole heart , which we could not give him when we shared it with the world , he will never ...
... Lord loveth he chasteneth . " Many a man in losing his fortune has found himself , and been ruined into salvation ; for though God de- mands the whole heart , which we could not give him when we shared it with the world , he will never ...
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... 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 , ) formerly expressive of female beauty , is now defined by Dr. Johnson ...
... 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 , ) formerly expressive of female beauty , is now defined by Dr. Johnson ...
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... Lord ordaineth his arrows against the perse- cutors . " They who practise , therefore , not those who depre- cate persecution , are the real unbelievers . Hacknied as is the quotation , we cannot , perhaps , better close this article ...
... Lord ordaineth his arrows against the perse- cutors . " They who practise , therefore , not those who depre- cate persecution , are the real unbelievers . Hacknied as is the quotation , we cannot , perhaps , better close this article ...
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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.