Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 39
... perfect union of intellectual and personal beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no longer in the first bloom of ...
... perfect union of intellectual and personal beauty , that the world perhaps ever produced ; for a female stood before me , whose dignified yet bewitching demea- nour entirely rivetted my attention . Though no longer in the first bloom of ...
Page 75
... perfect enjoyment which our nature will admit ; and it may be laid down as an universal maxim , that no mind is so constituted , as to be capable of unalloyed happiness while it can reproach itself with any crime towards man , however ...
... perfect enjoyment which our nature will admit ; and it may be laid down as an universal maxim , that no mind is so constituted , as to be capable of unalloyed happiness while it can reproach itself with any crime towards man , however ...
Page 129
... perfect pattern of grief , and nobody could have suspected her of laugh- ing in her sleeve when they saw the depth of its weepers . And yet as a lover of expense , and not of her husband , she might well have been justified in some ...
... perfect pattern of grief , and nobody could have suspected her of laugh- ing in her sleeve when they saw the depth of its weepers . And yet as a lover of expense , and not of her husband , she might well have been justified in some ...
Page 143
... perfect know- ledge of Latin ; and though the subject be not very dignified , it is redeemed , by his delicacy of handling and felicity of diction , from that common - place home- liness with which a less gifted bard would have been apt ...
... perfect know- ledge of Latin ; and though the subject be not very dignified , it is redeemed , by his delicacy of handling and felicity of diction , from that common - place home- liness with which a less gifted bard would have been apt ...
Page 147
... perfect and obscure publication , I am not aware of any attempt to do proper justice to these characters , beyond the very simple process of hanging them . This desideratum in literature I purpose to supply by a series of traditional or ...
... perfect and obscure publication , I am not aware of any attempt to do proper justice to these characters , beyond the very simple process of hanging them . This desideratum in literature I purpose to supply by a series of traditional or ...
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