Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 18
... wish to have cheerful and hilarious days . But in this our sombre and anti- risible age , it has rather become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly ...
... wish to have cheerful and hilarious days . But in this our sombre and anti- risible age , it has rather become the fashion to attack laughter , notwithstanding the cowardice of assaulting a personage who is obliged to be con- stantly ...
Page 29
... wishes of the narrators . If she be not married , this exaggerated statement is , to be sure , apt to be ad- duced as a proof that there must be something serious . against her , or , with such immense wealth , she would have gone off ...
... wishes of the narrators . If she be not married , this exaggerated statement is , to be sure , apt to be ad- duced as a proof that there must be something serious . against her , or , with such immense wealth , she would have gone off ...
Page 57
... wish to keep up some con- nexion with mortality , however slight ; and we stretch back our shadowy arms from the tomb to snatch at a phantom . Hence all our posthumous vanity and mo- numental earth - clinging , -from the dateless ...
... wish to keep up some con- nexion with mortality , however slight ; and we stretch back our shadowy arms from the tomb to snatch at a phantom . Hence all our posthumous vanity and mo- numental earth - clinging , -from the dateless ...
Page 63
... wish to stamp this moral upon our hearts , let us compare man with himself ; let us contemplate the death of the living , -of those who have survived themselves , and become their own tombs . Never did I feel so acutely the vanity of ...
... wish to stamp this moral upon our hearts , let us compare man with himself ; let us contemplate the death of the living , -of those who have survived themselves , and become their own tombs . Never did I feel so acutely the vanity of ...
Page 79
... wish , He comes again to - morrow . In air let pheasants range , " Tis to me a glorious sight , Which no fire of mine shall change Into grovelling blood and night : I am no hound , to pant and bound Behind a stag that's flying ; Nor can ...
... wish , He comes again to - morrow . In air let pheasants range , " Tis to me a glorious sight , Which no fire of mine shall change Into grovelling blood and night : I am no hound , to pant and bound Behind a stag that's flying ; Nor can ...
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