The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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devoting an hour and a half of their meeting to the consideration of some specific objects , of which several were sometimes proposed for a single night . The remaining hour and a half , for they met at seven , and parted at ten ...
devoting an hour and a half of their meeting to the consideration of some specific objects , of which several were sometimes proposed for a single night . The remaining hour and a half , for they met at seven , and parted at ten ...
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He might be caustic with his pen , especially if an epigrammatic 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 ...
He might be caustic with his pen , especially if an epigrammatic 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 ...
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He might be caustic with his pen, especially if an epigrammatic 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, ...
He might be caustic with his pen, especially if an epigrammatic 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, ...
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... be dashed to pieces upon their heads on account of his impiety , “ Know , madam , ” said the Patriarch— that I have said more good of the Deity in a single verse , than you will ever think of him in the whole course of your life .
... be dashed to pieces upon their heads on account of his impiety , “ Know , madam , ” said the Patriarch— that I have said more good of the Deity in a single verse , than you will ever think of him in the whole course of your life .
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Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
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| Title | The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
| Author | Horace Smith |
| Publisher | E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2007 |
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