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... laughter for the next age , which perhaps will look down upon us with the same pity as we regard our predecessors . It would be well for some of our scientific dogmatists to study the life of Sir Isaac Newton , and to learn from that ...
... laughter for the next age , which perhaps will look down upon us with the same pity as we regard our predecessors . It would be well for some of our scientific dogmatists to study the life of Sir Isaac Newton , and to learn from that ...
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... laugh through tears , and which laughs itself in its most savage moods . It has in it a wild , grim fancy , with something of the fierce , grotesque , and fiery earnestness of Hogarth , with the free , daring caricature of Cruikshank ...
... laugh through tears , and which laughs itself in its most savage moods . It has in it a wild , grim fancy , with something of the fierce , grotesque , and fiery earnestness of Hogarth , with the free , daring caricature of Cruikshank ...
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... laughter , and perfumes , to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl . ' " - Rev . Sydney Smith . " What a dull , plodding , tramping , clanking would the ordinary intercourse of Society ...
... laughter , and perfumes , to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl . ' " - Rev . Sydney Smith . " What a dull , plodding , tramping , clanking would the ordinary intercourse of Society ...
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... laughing . This is one of the many valuable privileges Nature has bestowed upon him . Laughter is a most healthful exercise ; and the man who has not the faculty to perceive the ludicrous , nor a healthy secretion of good humour in his ...
... laughing . This is one of the many valuable privileges Nature has bestowed upon him . Laughter is a most healthful exercise ; and the man who has not the faculty to perceive the ludicrous , nor a healthy secretion of good humour in his ...
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... laughs , who dislikes music and the glad face of a child . " Most of us have felt a chill as of the coldest winter in the presence of the man who cannot laugh , who presents to you a perfect dead wall of coun- tenance , whose eye meets ...
... laughs , who dislikes music and the glad face of a child . " Most of us have felt a chill as of the coldest winter in the presence of the man who cannot laugh , who presents to you a perfect dead wall of coun- tenance , whose eye meets ...
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Page 258 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 261 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Page 266 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 278 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 272 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 228 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 271 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 243 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state. she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 244 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Page 277 - And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.