The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... delightful recollection of all the pleasures of youth . Many a greybeard , who seems to be lost in vacancy , as he sits silently twidling his thumbs , is in fact chew- ing the mental cud of past happiness , and enjoying a tranquil ...
... delightful recollection of all the pleasures of youth . Many a greybeard , who seems to be lost in vacancy , as he sits silently twidling his thumbs , is in fact chew- ing the mental cud of past happiness , and enjoying a tranquil ...
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... , By beautiful fancies , The strain , and entrances Both ear and mind . Thy triumph , O music ! is ne'er complete , Till the pleasures of sense and of intellect meet . II . Delights like these , to the poor unknown HEADS AND TALES . 39.
... , By beautiful fancies , The strain , and entrances Both ear and mind . Thy triumph , O music ! is ne'er complete , Till the pleasures of sense and of intellect meet . II . Delights like these , to the poor unknown HEADS AND TALES . 39.
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To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. II . Delights like these , to the poor unknown , Are reserved for the rich and great alone , In diamonds and plumes , who fill the rooms Of some grand abode , And think that a guinea ...
To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. II . Delights like these , to the poor unknown , Are reserved for the rich and great alone , In diamonds and plumes , who fill the rooms Of some grand abode , And think that a guinea ...
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... delight in puzzles and riddles , even when they cannot discover their solution ; and the children of a larger growth desire no better employ- ment than to follow their example , however it may lead them astray . The mystery of the ...
... delight in puzzles and riddles , even when they cannot discover their solution ; and the children of a larger growth desire no better employ- ment than to follow their example , however it may lead them astray . The mystery of the ...
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... delight to man and beast . Animals are thus converted into plants , and plants again be- come animals ; -change of form and not extinction— or , rather , destruction for the sake of reproduction , being the system of nature . Pulverized ...
... delight to man and beast . Animals are thus converted into plants , and plants again be- come animals ; -change of form and not extinction— or , rather , destruction for the sake of reproduction , being the system of nature . Pulverized ...
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