Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the study of all dull people in general ; but when dulness is lodged in a person of a quick animal life , it generally ...
... head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the study of all dull people in general ; but when dulness is lodged in a person of a quick animal life , it generally ...
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... head within his jaws , will carry the rest of him hang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has digested him all . He has a hundred tricks to slip his neck out of the pillory without leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows ...
... head within his jaws , will carry the rest of him hang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has digested him all . He has a hundred tricks to slip his neck out of the pillory without leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows ...
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... head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint con- strained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the ...
... head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint con- strained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the ...
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... head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolution , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade ...
... head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolution , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade ...
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... head has the most beautiful appearance , as well as the highest station , in a human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it ...
... head has the most beautiful appearance , as well as the highest station , in a human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it ...
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