The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Band 1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 Seiten |
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... means incom- patible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by profes- sional , or even mechanical aids . Vivid conception , and keen sensibility , will not of ...
... means incom- patible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by profes- sional , or even mechanical aids . Vivid conception , and keen sensibility , will not of ...
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... mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " 66 ADMIRATION — We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in ...
... mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " 66 ADMIRATION — We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in ...
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... means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless exercise , we would pervert it into a dangerous instrument of aggression . Blind and ungovernable rage , approaching to the nature of madness , not only ...
... means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless exercise , we would pervert it into a dangerous instrument of aggression . Blind and ungovernable rage , approaching to the nature of madness , not only ...
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... means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the fingers ...
... means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the fingers ...
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... mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at the East India House , and in those of al- most every club throughout ...
... mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at the East India House , and in those of al- most every club throughout ...
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abuse amusing ancient ANTISTROPHE Athanasian Creed badger-baiting barrister beauty become believe better Bishop Bishop Hoadly blind character Christianity Church creatures creed death delight despot earth England envy epicure equally evanescent evil exclaimed faith favour fear feeling folly fools forget former fortune French give hand happy head heart heaven honour human imagine imitation instance intolerance Jack Ketch king lady latter less live Lord Madame de Stael man's ment Merry Andrew mind miserable moral Muggletonian nation nature never nonsense verses object opinion orange colour ourselves party Pharisee pleasure possess present racter Reform religion religious rendered replied retributive justice rotten boroughs says seldom sense society sometimes soul spirit sympathy talent term thing thirty-nine articles thou thought throw Tin Trumpet tion truth virtue Voltaire wife word write
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Seite 48 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Seite 170 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Seite 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Seite 50 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Seite 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Seite 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Seite 135 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Seite 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Seite 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.