Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... pleasure , but lacking the means of honorably gratifying their social propen- sities , have sunk , step by step , into the mire of degra- dation and debasement , until they became the com- panions of sharpers , or the oracles of pot ...
... pleasure , but lacking the means of honorably gratifying their social propen- sities , have sunk , step by step , into the mire of degra- dation and debasement , until they became the com- panions of sharpers , or the oracles of pot ...
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... pleasure , and warbling their arch or joyous ditties to delighted ears , to hear some poor homeless wretch , trembling in the heavy dews of midnight , howling the self - same strains to heedless passengers as they hurry past him with a ...
... pleasure , and warbling their arch or joyous ditties to delighted ears , to hear some poor homeless wretch , trembling in the heavy dews of midnight , howling the self - same strains to heedless passengers as they hurry past him with a ...
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... pleasure to button tightly around him , and bestowed his nether extremities in a pair of fashionable pantaloons , familiarly denominated " tights , " of the same sombre hue . I must take upon myself to say that this latter act was ...
... pleasure to button tightly around him , and bestowed his nether extremities in a pair of fashionable pantaloons , familiarly denominated " tights , " of the same sombre hue . I must take upon myself to say that this latter act was ...
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... pleasure to term " popular fallacies . " Now , notwithstanding we can travel ten miles an hour quicker than those who lived before us , I , for one , cannot help think- ing that our ancestors knew something ; and am therefore ...
... pleasure to term " popular fallacies . " Now , notwithstanding we can travel ten miles an hour quicker than those who lived before us , I , for one , cannot help think- ing that our ancestors knew something ; and am therefore ...
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... pleasures of early rural walks , & c . They talk of green fields , purling streams , warbling birds , and healthful breezes , invariably winding up with a florid description of the glories of the rising sun . Now I myself , from dear ...
... pleasures of early rural walks , & c . They talk of green fields , purling streams , warbling birds , and healthful breezes , invariably winding up with a florid description of the glories of the rising sun . Now I myself , from dear ...
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Page 223 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 25 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Page 178 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 106 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 230 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 231 - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
Page 221 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 17 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 68 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Page 129 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.