The Comforts of Human Life: Or, Smiles and Laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow. In Seven DialoguesOddy and Company, 1807 - 226 pages |
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Page 103 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Page 136 - How ill the motion with the music suits, So Orpheus fiddled, and so danced the brutes.
Page 129 - Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore.
Page 159 - QUI fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem Seu ratio dederit seu fors objecerit ilia Contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes ? " O fortunati mercatores !" gravis annis Miles ait multo jam fractus membra labore.
Page 101 - ... thinking how many discontented half-pay lieutenants are in vain seeking promotion all their lives, and obliged to put up with " the insolence of office, and the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Page 174 - Was he little concerned about the cast of his phiz ? He can, however* suffer no uneasiness on account of any effect of growing years upon it, unless it become^ by age, less powerfully coiiiic.
Page 173 - ... the subsequent life of him who has lost them. The fading of ugliness is but the withering of a thistle, the decay of a nettle, the crushing of a toadstool, the extirpation of a mugrcort, the cutting down of aknarled birch or crab-thorn.
Page 176 - It is the Suspensus Nasus which the Romans held to be so remarkable an indication of acute delicacy in the perception of the ridiculous.
Page 160 - Hump, if he have one, for a portable writing-desk. It 'is well known what wealth a little My Lord got, at Paris, during the famous Mississipl rage, by putting his Hump to.
Page 175 - There is scarce a merry, .shrewd, witty fellow, even in fictitious history, but has the honour of ugliness attributed to him.