The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1834 |
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... pleasures , to embrace Uncertain vanities ? No , be it your care To augment a heap of wealth : it shall be mine To increase in knowledge . Lights there for my study . IV . ACONTIUS'S APPLE . ACONTIUS was a youth of the island of Cea ...
... pleasures , to embrace Uncertain vanities ? No , be it your care To augment a heap of wealth : it shall be mine To increase in knowledge . Lights there for my study . IV . ACONTIUS'S APPLE . ACONTIUS was a youth of the island of Cea ...
Page 18
... pleasure they have done to the world , as of the less happy objects about us . The steeple of the church itself , too , is a handsome one ; and there is a flock of pigeons in that neighbourhood , which we have stood with great pleasure ...
... pleasure they have done to the world , as of the less happy objects about us . The steeple of the church itself , too , is a handsome one ; and there is a flock of pigeons in that neighbourhood , which we have stood with great pleasure ...
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... pleasure into the faces of half a dozen agreeable women , is a toy unworthy of the manliness of a worm - sticker . But to put a hook into the gills of a carp - there you attain the end of a reasonable being ; there you shew yourself ...
... pleasure into the faces of half a dozen agreeable women , is a toy unworthy of the manliness of a worm - sticker . But to put a hook into the gills of a carp - there you attain the end of a reasonable being ; there you shew yourself ...
Page 52
... pleasures had not been confined to fishing . His sympathies indeed had been a little superabun- dant , and left him ... pleasure and diet , " are all that anglers have to say for the innocence of their sport . But they are both as rank ...
... pleasures had not been confined to fishing . His sympathies indeed had been a little superabun- dant , and left him ... pleasure and diet , " are all that anglers have to say for the innocence of their sport . But they are both as rank ...
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... pleasures ( save and except a rich gown over his sackcloth ) , and in the midst of a gay court , became the most mortified of ascetics . Instead of hunting and hawk- ing , he paced a solitary cloister ; instead of his wine , he drank ...
... pleasures ( save and except a rich gown over his sackcloth ) , and in the midst of a gay court , became the most mortified of ascetics . Instead of hunting and hawk- ing , he paced a solitary cloister ; instead of his wine , he drank ...
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