The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... half so much as I have made you laugh . " " Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est , " says an anti - risible reader ; but if laughter be genuine , and consequently a means of innocent enjoy- ment , can it be inept ? LAW - English - see ...
... half so much as I have made you laugh . " " Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est , " says an anti - risible reader ; but if laughter be genuine , and consequently a means of innocent enjoy- ment , can it be inept ? LAW - English - see ...
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... half - baked snuff , which they tried , and found it so grateful to their noses , that they loaded their waistcoat pockets with the spoil . Lundy Foot , roused from his stupor , at length imitated their exam- ple , and took a pinch of ...
... half - baked snuff , which they tried , and found it so grateful to their noses , that they loaded their waistcoat pockets with the spoil . Lundy Foot , roused from his stupor , at length imitated their exam- ple , and took a pinch of ...
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... half a deity . And yet the forward- springing and ardent mind , which , running a - head of its contemporaries , stands upon the forehead of the age to come , only renders itself the more conspicuous mark for obloquy and assault . Like ...
... half a deity . And yet the forward- springing and ardent mind , which , running a - head of its contemporaries , stands upon the forehead of the age to come , only renders itself the more conspicuous mark for obloquy and assault . Like ...
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... half of the nation , and starve the other ; " - a vaunt well worth the consideration of those who have placed themselves within the first clause of his prophecy . To the utterance of oaths , as execrations , a practice equally hateful ...
... half of the nation , and starve the other ; " - a vaunt well worth the consideration of those who have placed themselves within the first clause of his prophecy . To the utterance of oaths , as execrations , a practice equally hateful ...
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... half - expired tradition , rises First - love with Friendship in their company . The pang is renewed ; the plaint repeats the labyrinthine , mazy course of life , and names the dear ones who , cheated of fair hours by fortune , have ...
... half - expired tradition , rises First - love with Friendship in their company . The pang is renewed ; the plaint repeats the labyrinthine , mazy course of life , and names the dear ones who , cheated of fair hours by fortune , have ...
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