Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 30
... happy creature who combines them all with the keen though subordinate delights of sense - who is placed in the midst of this transitory paradise under a promise that if he walks in that path which imparts the most intense enjoyment to ...
... happy creature who combines them all with the keen though subordinate delights of sense - who is placed in the midst of this transitory paradise under a promise that if he walks in that path which imparts the most intense enjoyment to ...
Page 40
... happy in the dark , rather than be enlightened into misery . We have all our little foibles of self - love , our vanities of egotism , our illusions and inflations which may sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high ...
... happy in the dark , rather than be enlightened into misery . We have all our little foibles of self - love , our vanities of egotism , our illusions and inflations which may sometimes cause us , perhaps , to flutter a little too high ...
Page 42
... happy igno- rance . Tell us not that the distrustfulness of age will quickly dissipate our flattering visions ; reprobating , with Fontaine , " cette philosophie rigide qui fait cesser de vivre avant que l'on soit mort , " let us cling ...
... happy igno- rance . Tell us not that the distrustfulness of age will quickly dissipate our flattering visions ; reprobating , with Fontaine , " cette philosophie rigide qui fait cesser de vivre avant que l'on soit mort , " let us cling ...
Page 46
... happy introduction of the subject beverage in the fourth , will not escape the most careless critic . Candour requires that we should not disguise , on the other hand , the opinion of Swift , who thus writes in his Journal to Stella ...
... happy introduction of the subject beverage in the fourth , will not escape the most careless critic . Candour requires that we should not disguise , on the other hand , the opinion of Swift , who thus writes in his Journal to Stella ...
Page 65
... happy days , the next operation was a regular and persevering set - to at the genuine old English country- dance ; and the amusements of the night were invari- ably wound up by the Boulanger , or Sir Roger de Coverley . One of my nieces ...
... happy days , the next operation was a regular and persevering set - to at the genuine old English country- dance ; and the amusements of the night were invari- ably wound up by the Boulanger , or Sir Roger de Coverley . One of my nieces ...
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