...useless in augmenting the number who do. But for the present I must cease, and go a mousing. ?i)oot " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." YOUNO. HERE we are at Slimeham-in-the-Sludge ! But don't be misled by a name bestowed some centuries...

...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we. strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira 's sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes ; but where 's his patient ? At the ball....

...craves for more substantial fare than is provided at St. Ursula's. All through the autumn and winter, ' Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive.' But when Lent begins, my wife and her unmarried sister, who stays a good deal with us, long, like Chaucer's...

...solid joys, In fancy's airy land of noise and show, Where nought but dreams, no real pleasures, grow ; Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Lemira's sick ; make haste ; the doctor call : He comes ; but where 's his patient ? At the ball. The...

...they understood or sympathised with a single aspiration of those whose votes kept them in power. " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." And the Radical party in Parliament and the country is beginning to hunger for more substantial fare....

...sake of placing some object in a ridiculous point of view. Of these I shall now add a few examples. Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Young's Love of Fame. It is only the public situation which this gentleman holds which entitles me,...

...for more substantial fare than is provided at St. Ursula's. All through the autumn and winter — " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." But when Lent begins, my wife and her unmarried sister, who stays a good deal with us, long, like Chaucer's...

...for more substantial fare than is provided at St. Ursula's. All through the autumn and winter — " Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." But when Lent begins, my wife and her unmarried sister, who stays a good deal with us, long, like Chaucer's...

...sake of placing some object in a ridiculous point of view. Of these I shall now add a few examples. , Like cats in air-pumps, to subsist we strive On joys too thin to keep the soul alive. Young's Love of Fame. It is only the public situation which this gentleman holds which entitles me,...

...in "Poor Kichard," 1746, thus poetically popularizes the ideas of his time: "Like cats in air pumps to subsist we strive, On joys too thin to keep the soul alive." The dawn of the modern era has been reached, but there is little to indicate the impending clarification...