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" I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. "
The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts - Page 183
by Charles Lamb - 1818
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...1 was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh....
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Select British Classics, Volume 17

English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of /company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...I was bora in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in. one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh thyself...
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The Spectator, Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 1

1823 - 494 pages
...hare a piece of that leaden planet in me." One would think that he were anatomizing a tailor ! save to the latter's occupation, methinks, a woollen planet...for a repartee, but rarely (I think) contributes one ore proprio. Drink itself does not seem to elevate him, or at least to call out of him any of the external...
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The Mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction [ed. by T. Byerley ...

Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...the latter's occupation, methinks, a woollen planet would seem more consonant, and that he should he born when the sun was in Aries. — He goes on. "I...for a repartee, but rarely (I think) contributes one ore proprio. Drink itself does not seem to elevate him, or at least о call out of him any of the external...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 392 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in • By Sir T. Brown, MD We may likewise observe, in the third place, that the passions affect...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an ..., Volume 10

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me; I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself...
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The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 7

1827 - 412 pages
...I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself...
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