The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... turns , terse sayings , antithetical phrases , and even puerile conceits , were his hobby- horse , and one which he occasionally rode even to a tiresome excess . Whatever of this sort was elicited at the meetings , or subsequently ...
... turns , terse sayings , antithetical phrases , and even puerile conceits , were his hobby- horse , and one which he occasionally rode even to a tiresome excess . Whatever of this sort was elicited at the meetings , or subsequently ...
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... turn were at stake ; but his lips could not utter anything intentionally bitter , nor could his heart harbour a single angry feeling . This is not the place , however , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his ...
... turn were at stake ; but his lips could not utter anything intentionally bitter , nor could his heart harbour a single angry feeling . This is not the place , however , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his ...
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... turns earth , and even manure , into gold , conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health . Most appropriate was the rebuke of Pope Leo X. , who , when a visionary pretended to have discovered the philosopher's stone ...
... turns earth , and even manure , into gold , conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health . Most appropriate was the rebuke of Pope Leo X. , who , when a visionary pretended to have discovered the philosopher's stone ...
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... turns the head , while its loss sours the temper ; if the long regret of its decay outweighs the fleet- ing pleasure of its bloom , the plain should rather pity than envy the handsome . Beauty of countenance , which , being the light of ...
... turns the head , while its loss sours the temper ; if the long regret of its decay outweighs the fleet- ing pleasure of its bloom , the plain should rather pity than envy the handsome . Beauty of countenance , which , being the light of ...
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... turning upon the anti- quity of different Italian houses , in the presence of Sextus V. when Pope , he maintained that his was the most illustrious of any , for being half unroofed , the light entered on all sides , a circumstance to ...
... turning upon the anti- quity of different Italian houses , in the presence of Sextus V. when Pope , he maintained that his was the most illustrious of any , for being half unroofed , the light entered on all sides , a circumstance to ...
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