He has dammed up all those lights that nature made into the noblest prospects of the world, and opened other little blind loopholes backward, by turning day into night, and night into day. His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the... Memoirs of Count Grammont - Page 260by Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809Full view - About this book
| Samuel Butler - 1759 - 554 pages
...Day. His Appetite to his Pleafures is difeafed and crazy, like the Pica in a Woman, that longs to eat that, which was never made for Food, or a Girl in the Greenficknefs, that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of Pleafure have filled his Mind with... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...day. His appetite to his 'pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being -irk and tired with the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false values upon things, which,... | |
| Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1859 - 624 pages
...His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman, that longs to eat what was never made for food, or a girl in the green sickness,...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being tired and sick of the old. Continual wine, women, and music put false values upon things, which by... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 pages
...day. His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the...makes him affect new and extravagant ways, as being tired and sick with the old. Continual wine, women, and music put false values upon things, which by... | |
| George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1868 - 168 pages
...Day. His Appetite to his Pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the Pica in a Woman, that longs to eat that, which was never made for Food, or a Girl in the Green-sickness, that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of Pleasure have filled his Mind with... | |
| William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
.... . His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman that longs to eat that which was never made for food ; or a girl in the green sickness that eats chalk and mortar. Continual wine, music, and women put false value upon things, which by custom became habitual, and... | |
| Anthony Hamilton - 1876 - 552 pages
...had procured him with the king, opened the way to those favours to which he was afterwards advanced. a girl in the green sickness, that eats chalk and...the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false value upon things, which, by custom, become habitual, and debauch his understandingso,thatheretains... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1906 - 636 pages
...day. His appetite to his pleasures is diseased and crazy, like the pica in a woman, that longs to eat that which was never made for food, or a girl in the...the old. Continual wine, women, and music, put false value upon things, which, by custom, become habitual, and debauch his understanding so, that he retains... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1908 - 514 pages
...in a Woman, that longs to eat that, which was never made for Food, or a Girl in the Green-sickness, that eats Chalk and Mortar. Perpetual Surfeits of...being sick and tired with the Old. Continual Wine, 3* Women, and Music put false Values upon Things, which by Custom become habitual, and debauch his... | |
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