“To use the established phrase, three months of uninterrupted happiness glided away—a phrase, though in frequent use, whose accuracy I greatly doubt; there being no such thing as uninterrupted happiness any how or any where.”

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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