The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, 第 1 巻Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 ページ |
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abuse admiration ancient ANTISTROPHE asked Athanasian Creed badger-baiting beauty believe better Bishop Bishop Hoadly blind character Christianity Church classes confessed creatures creed dæmon death delight despot earth enjoyment epicure equally evanescent evil exclaimed faith fear feeling fools former fortune French give habit happy head HEADS AND TALES heart heaven honour human imagine imitation instance intolerance Jack Ketch king lady latter live Lord Lord Bacon Madame de Stael ment mind miserable moral Muggletonian nation nature never nonsense verses object once opinion ourselves parliament pleasure possess present profes racter reformation religion religious rendered replied retributive justice rotten boroughs Roundhead says seldom sense society sometimes soul spirit talent term thing thirty-nine articles thou thought tion truth virtue Voltaire whole wife word write
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67 ページ - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
240 ページ - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
224 ページ - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
70 ページ - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
277 ページ - I would only ask, why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome laws, made every third or fourth year in parliament assembled ; devising remedies as fast as time breedeth mischief: and contrariwise the ecclesiastical state should still continue upon the dregs of time, and receive no alteration now for these...
209 ページ - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy ! S.
191 ページ - There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me, I am the image of God as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
240 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
190 ページ - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
114 ページ - Every other idea, and every other end, that have been mixed with this, as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally, of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or...