Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 55
... fear my words- " Just then , alas ! They did seem anxious to prevent ' em , For some one threw a muddy mass Into his eye with such momentum , That by the well - directed sally ' Twas closed and seal'd hermetically . Another gave the ...
... fear my words- " Just then , alas ! They did seem anxious to prevent ' em , For some one threw a muddy mass Into his eye with such momentum , That by the well - directed sally ' Twas closed and seal'd hermetically . Another gave the ...
Page 56
... fear of what we are going to , that makes us draw back our foot when the grave opens beneath it . Three - fourths of mankind , in their last moments , seem more anxious to be recorded in 66 this world than favoured in the next ; and 56 ...
... fear of what we are going to , that makes us draw back our foot when the grave opens beneath it . Three - fourths of mankind , in their last moments , seem more anxious to be recorded in 66 this world than favoured in the next ; and 56 ...
Page 61
... fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life , smooth his pillow of death ...
... fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life , smooth his pillow of death ...
Page 64
... fear.- How often with thy father have I sat beside thy bed , How we look'd at one another when thy colour came and fled ; For death we both forboded , though we dared not tell our fears , And we turn'd aside our faces to hide the coming ...
... fear.- How often with thy father have I sat beside thy bed , How we look'd at one another when thy colour came and fled ; For death we both forboded , though we dared not tell our fears , And we turn'd aside our faces to hide the coming ...
Page 77
... Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or attraction ; even her frowns are beauti- ful , and we need not fear that death shall TO - DAY . 77.
... Gazing upon the face of Nature , we shall encounter no human passions , no distrust , no jealousy , no intermission of friendship or attraction ; even her frowns are beauti- ful , and we need not fear that death shall TO - DAY . 77.
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