Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 20
... happy and healthy organization which occasions a constant flow of the animal spirits . Unnatural laughter , which sometimes accompanies the triumph of the most malignant passions , or bursts out upon any unexpected change of fortune ...
... happy and healthy organization which occasions a constant flow of the animal spirits . Unnatural laughter , which sometimes accompanies the triumph of the most malignant passions , or bursts out upon any unexpected change of fortune ...
Page 24
... happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though the world has very little gratitude for those who become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- cent than my life ...
... happy in my snug little cottage betweeen Sutton and Epsom . Though the world has very little gratitude for those who become its slaves , it hates those who appear to be independent of it . Nothing could be more inno- cent than my life ...
Page 60
... happy enough to be parents , may find rejuveniscence without Medea's cauldron , or Saint Leon's forbidden compact , or the pregnant elixir of the alchemists . There is a blossoming of spring in the autumn of their life , a genuine ...
... happy enough to be parents , may find rejuveniscence without Medea's cauldron , or Saint Leon's forbidden compact , or the pregnant elixir of the alchemists . There is a blossoming of spring in the autumn of their life , a genuine ...
Page 62
... happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye , my darlings ; come to my arms at once ! While I have been wiping my children's eyes and my own , one of those involuntary thoughts which shoot across the brain ...
... happy moment till I can wait for its ar- rival no longer . God bless ye , my darlings ; come to my arms at once ! While I have been wiping my children's eyes and my own , one of those involuntary thoughts which shoot across the brain ...
Page 72
... happy moments , when Time flies most rapidly , forgetting that he is the only winged person- age who cannot fly backwards , and that his speed is but hurrying us to the grave . The Hours , his cour- tiers and outriders , are at this ...
... happy moments , when Time flies most rapidly , forgetting that he is the only winged person- age who cannot fly backwards , and that his speed is but hurrying us to the grave . The Hours , his cour- tiers and outriders , are at this ...
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