This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... DIALOGUE THE THIRD. COMFORTS OF LONDON. Testy, Sensitive, Cheatful, and Merryfellozv. Scene--Setisitive's House in St. James's-Square. Sensitive. Icome, gentlemen! I am glad to find you, all, punctual to your appointment. I was, myself, impatient to see you. I have not slept sounder these twenty years ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... DIALOGUE THE THIRD. COMFORTS OF LONDON. Testy, Sensitive, Cheatful, and Merryfellozv. Scene--Setisitive's House in St. James's-Square. Sensitive. Icome, gentlemen! I am glad to find you, all, punctual to your appointment. I was, myself, impatient to see you. I have not slept sounder these twenty years, nor had more pleasant dreams, than last night. When I went to bed, I fell, almost instantly, into a deep, refreshing sleep. Towards the dawn, I awoke, in a pleasing state of the spirits. After reflecting on what passed in our conversation of yester-day, I, turned my thoughts, for some minutes, on what I was to expect to-day. I dropped asleep, again. Asleep, I soon, imagined myself in a Paradise, in which all was abundance, beauty, chearfulness, constancy, and gay good-humour. Methought, there was no subject of vexation, known in that spacious, rural scene, but such things as--getting a little sand in the boot in walking---a pinch of snuff scaN tered from the fingers by the wind, and getting partly into the eyes--now and then, an unseasonable ring of bells--and other such embryo miseries--as made the burthen of the famous rural Dialogue between Testy and myself. But, they seemed not miseries. They were occasions of gaiety, springs of exertion, topics of converse, points upon which the mutual sympathies of all, were lightly and most agreeably exercised. Tes. Don't fancy, Mr. Sensitive, that I am unwilling to see you deceived into a dream of vain felicity. Make yourself as happy as you can. Sacrifice your senses and your reason to the vainest of delusions. Depart to Fairy-land, if you can--Allow Chearful and Merryfellow to make you--now the butt of their irony and laughter--now, the dupe of their serious, but fictitious pretences.--The only..
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