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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 95
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The New evangelical magazine and theological review, Volume 10

1824 - 452 pages
...you will find out my enigma at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at...at any rate, but more especially so if they should dis_ PRIVATE CORRESPONTIEKCE OF WM. COWPKH, ESQ. thousands at a gamine-table, finds it convenient to...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 14

1824 - 494 pages
...out, and yon will find out my enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe them now. Indeed 1 wonder that a sportive thought should...ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still mure that it ihould gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1824 - 624 pages
...enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed I wonder that a tportiTe thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects,...rate, but more especially so if they should distort die features of the mournful attendants into laughter. But the mind long wearied with the sameness...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 30

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1824 - 616 pages
...itself would be welcome to me, so it were not a vicious one.' — vol. i. pp. 128, 129. ' Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at...into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited instate. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable at any rate, but more especially so if they...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...you will find out my enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at...It is as if Harlequin should intrude himself into a gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable...
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Essays on the Lives of Cowper, Newton, and Heber: Or, an Examination of the ...

John Philips Potter - Providence and government of God - 1830 - 360 pages
...for less. Dis" sipation itself would be welcome to me, so " it were not a vicious one."* " Indeed, I wonder that a sportive thought " should ever knock at the door of my intel" lects, and still more that it should gain ad" mittance. It is as if a harlequin should " intrude...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1835 - 878 pages
...out my enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed I wonder that n sportive thought should ever knock at the door of...intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse was deposited in state. His antic gesticulation* would he unseasonable at any rate, but more especially...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Volume 15

William Cowper - 1836 - 392 pages
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Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey

William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...is as clear as ever." 14 Jan. 1775. This was at the commencement of his recovery. 14 July 12, 1780. sportive thought should ever knock at the door of...should distort the features of the mournful attendants with laughter. But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull dreary prospect, will gladly...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ...

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 388 pages
...you will find out my enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at...door of my intellects, and still more that it should gam admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse...
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