There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three--... That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of per...spiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through l...uxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons, Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in... travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »