Les Misères de la vie humaine, ou les Gémissemens et soupirs Exhalés au milieu des fêtes, des spectacles, des bals et des concerts, des amusemens de la campagne, des plaisirs de la table, de la chasse, de la pêche et du jeu, des délices du bain, des récréations de la lecture, des agrémens des voyages, des jouissances domestiques, de la société du grand monde, et du séjour enchanteur de la Capitale ; et Recueillis par James Beresford, Maître-ès-arts et Membre du Collége de Merton de l'Université d'Oxford, avec cette épigraphe... Traduction de l'anglais, sur la huitième Edition par T.-P.-Bertin, Ornée de figures en taille-douce et en bois. Tome premier-[second].W. Miller, 1807 - 2 pages |
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... arrival is over , retires as briskly as it advanced ; and if it has removed a few crazy houses , it gratifies their late inhabitants with a valuable opportunity of rebuilding them , on corrected principles both of strength and taste ...
... arrival is over , retires as briskly as it advanced ; and if it has removed a few crazy houses , it gratifies their late inhabitants with a valuable opportunity of rebuilding them , on corrected principles both of strength and taste ...
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... arrival at the ground , violent rain coming on , and continuing without one moment's intermis- sion during the whole of the spectacle ; just at the close of which , the sun peeps out from his hiding- place , and laughs in your face ...
... arrival at the ground , violent rain coming on , and continuing without one moment's intermis- sion during the whole of the spectacle ; just at the close of which , the sun peeps out from his hiding- place , and laughs in your face ...
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... arrival , you are told has just been knocked down for nothing . 29. ( S. ) On Christmas eve - being dunned by several parties of rural barbarians , on account of having stunned you by screaming and bellowing Christmas carols under your ...
... arrival , you are told has just been knocked down for nothing . 29. ( S. ) On Christmas eve - being dunned by several parties of rural barbarians , on account of having stunned you by screaming and bellowing Christmas carols under your ...
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... you that the end of a journey may be still worse than the journey itself : — 33. ( S. ) After having arrived at home , completely ex- hausted by a long journey , and delightfully diffused yourself 36 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
... you that the end of a journey may be still worse than the journey itself : — 33. ( S. ) After having arrived at home , completely ex- hausted by a long journey , and delightfully diffused yourself 36 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
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... arrival at last , all their in- telligence is musty . 41. ( S. ) While deeply , delightfully , and , as you hope , safely , engaged at home in the morning , after pe- remptory orders of denial to all comers whom- soever , being suddenly ...
... arrival at last , all their in- telligence is musty . 41. ( S. ) While deeply , delightfully , and , as you hope , safely , engaged at home in the morning , after pe- remptory orders of denial to all comers whom- soever , being suddenly ...
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Page 130 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 228 - IiOud was the noise, aghast was every guest. The women shriek'd, the men forsook the feast...
Page 30 - ... having long overlooked and animated their busy labours, and seen the exuberant produce turned and re-turned under a smiling sun, till every blade is as dry as a bone, and as sweet as a...
Page 64 - Not to mention the Misery of turning back, splashing along, at full speed, and fighting your way through the crowd ; and all this in order to go the longest way round, and be too late at last ! — so that your whole account stands thus : — " Negatd tentat iter via ; — Coetusque vulgares, et udam Spernit humum fugiente
Page 278 - tis possible for woman To suffer greater ills than Lucia suffers ? MARCIA. 0 Lucia, Lucia, might my big-swoln heart Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow Marcia could answer thee in sighs, keep pace • With all thy woes, and count out tear for tear.
Page 31 - While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been only singing all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed!—If I had been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment," Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas, cantas...
Page 53 - Death ! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. The sun himself by thy permission shines, And one day thou shalt pluck him from his sphere : Amid such mighty plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer!
Page 89 - ... dozen of our countrymen of this white-livered description ; ' but who can think, with common patience, even of that handful ?' " In powerful contradiction, too, to the sense and truth of the following. " 11. (S. ) At the play — the sickening scraps of naval loyalty which are crammed down your throat faster than you can gulp them, in such after-pieces as are called
Page 141 - Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign ; and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroil'd, And Discord, with a thousand various mouths.
Page 136 - After having left a company in which you have been galled by the raillery of some wag by profession, thinking, at your leisure, of a repartee, which, if discharged at the proper moment, would have blown him to atoms.