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" 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 260
by Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809
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The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler ..., Volume 2

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...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 2

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,...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 1

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 562 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 snrfeits of pleasure have filled his mind with bad and vicious humours (as well as bis body with a...
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Hudibras, Volume 1

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...
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Poetical Works, Volume 1

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...
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The Rehearsal: First Acted 7 Dec. 1671. Published ?July 1672. With ...

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...
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The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal ...

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...
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Memoirs of count Grammont, ed., with notes, by sir W. Scott

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...
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Memoirs of Count Gramont

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...
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Characters and Passages from Note-books

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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