The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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Page 49
... pleasures , " says old Fuller , " I am afraid they will take unlawful pleasure , and , by lacing themselves too hard , grow awry on one side . " To the the same purport we may quote the observation of the French writer , Balzac : " Si ...
... pleasures , " says old Fuller , " I am afraid they will take unlawful pleasure , and , by lacing themselves too hard , grow awry on one side . " To the the same purport we may quote the observation of the French writer , Balzac : " Si ...
Page 53
... pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first thousand . So far from sup- posing an old miser to be inevitably miserable , in the Latin sense of the word , it ...
... pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first thousand . So far from sup- posing an old miser to be inevitably miserable , in the Latin sense of the word , it ...
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... pleasure . We have no bodily enjoyment to counterbalance the agony of an acute tooth - ache ; nor any mental one ... Pleasures of Hope , being at a dinner party with Mr. Turner , R. A. , whose enthusiasm for his art led him to speak of ...
... pleasure . We have no bodily enjoyment to counterbalance the agony of an acute tooth - ache ; nor any mental one ... Pleasures of Hope , being at a dinner party with Mr. Turner , R. A. , whose enthusiasm for his art led him to speak of ...
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... pleasures . " Cutting himself off from a great blessing , for fear of some trifling annoyance , he has rivalled the wiseacre who secured himself against corns , by ampu- tating his leg . In his selfish anxiety to live unencumbered , he ...
... pleasures . " Cutting himself off from a great blessing , for fear of some trifling annoyance , he has rivalled the wiseacre who secured himself against corns , by ampu- tating his leg . In his selfish anxiety to live unencumbered , he ...
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... pleasure of its bloom , the plain should rather pity than envy the handsome . Beauty of countenance , which , being the light of the soul shining through the face , is independent of features or complexion , is the most attractive , as ...
... pleasure of its bloom , the plain should rather pity than envy the handsome . Beauty of countenance , which , being the light of the soul shining through the face , is independent of features or complexion , is the most attractive , as ...
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