Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The bitterness of trouble seems not so unfitting when drunk out of a pewter mug, as when it pours from the chaste lips and
Of a golden chalice.
In the sharp crack of the voluptuary pistol, putting an end to his earthly misery, I hear the confirmation that in a hollow, fastidious life there is no peace.
Again, excessive devotion to fashion is productive of physical disease, mental imbecility, and spiritual withering.
Apparel insufficient to keep out the cold and rain, or so fitted upon the person that the functions of life are restrained
Late hours filled with excitement and feasting
Free draughts of wine that make one not beastly intoxicated but only fashionably drunk.
And luxurious indolence are the instruments by which this unreal life pushes its disciples into valitudinarianism and the grave.
Along the walks of high life death goes a mowing.
And such harvests as I'll reaped.
Materia Medica has been exhausted to find curatives for these physiological devastations.
Dropssies, cancers, consumptions, gout, and almost every infirmity in all the realm of pathology.
Have been the penalty paid?
To counteract the damage, pharmacy has gone forth with medicament, panacea, elixir, embrocation, salve,
And cataplasm.
To night, with swollen feet upon cushioned ottomans,
And groaning with aches innumerable, is a votary of luxurious living, not half so happy as his groom or coal heaver.
Fashion is the world's undertaker, and drives thousands of hearses to Laurel Hill and Greenwood.
But worse than that, this folly is an intellectual depletion.
This endless study of proprieties and etiquette, patterns and style is bedwarfing to the intellect.
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