Sketches from Life, 3. kötetH. Colburn, 1846 |
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2. oldal
... breaking up of a frost . Thick lowering clouds , through which not a star struggled , threatened yet more rain . Wandering on apparently without any settled course , the old man stopped in another street ( it was somewhere in the ...
... breaking up of a frost . Thick lowering clouds , through which not a star struggled , threatened yet more rain . Wandering on apparently without any settled course , the old man stopped in another street ( it was somewhere in the ...
8. oldal
... breaking through the wet and murky night , to cheer his way , or supply an image of that vague and feeble and far - off hope , whatever its nature might be , that struggled to keep alive its melancholy light amid the darkness of his ...
... breaking through the wet and murky night , to cheer his way , or supply an image of that vague and feeble and far - off hope , whatever its nature might be , that struggled to keep alive its melancholy light amid the darkness of his ...
23. oldal
... at an inn refuses to take mustard with his pork - chop ; or when another , in spite of every hint , persists in breaking his eggs at the small end , or lighting his cheroot at the large end ; or when a PASSIONATE PEOPLE . 23.
... at an inn refuses to take mustard with his pork - chop ; or when another , in spite of every hint , persists in breaking his eggs at the small end , or lighting his cheroot at the large end ; or when a PASSIONATE PEOPLE . 23.
30. oldal
... break a window or two . This may seem a poor relief : not so : there is , doubtless , an exquisite satisfaction in knowing that nothing less than a large county must pay the damage . Suppose you only shatter a dozen panes , or effect ...
... break a window or two . This may seem a poor relief : not so : there is , doubtless , an exquisite satisfaction in knowing that nothing less than a large county must pay the damage . Suppose you only shatter a dozen panes , or effect ...
32. oldal
... break it ; she can't . " And yet it were wiser to walk on rotten ice than to put faith for an instant in that angel upon earth , or in that soul of honour , her panegyrist . Trust is not to be reposed in any member of the Froth family ...
... break it ; she can't . " And yet it were wiser to walk on rotten ice than to put faith for an instant in that angel upon earth , or in that soul of honour , her panegyrist . Trust is not to be reposed in any member of the Froth family ...
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329. oldal - Oh that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
334. oldal - My tables, — meet it is, I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark : [ Writing. So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word ; It is, Adieu, adieu ! remember me.
161. oldal - He was a man, take him for all in all, We ne'er shall look upon his like again.
335. oldal - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
156. oldal - What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature! To...
354. oldal - Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in shape of a camel? Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Ham. Methinks, it is like a weasel. Put. It is backed like a weasel. Ham. Or, like a whale ? Pol. Very like a whale.
59. oldal - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
332. oldal - Thrift, thrift, Horatio; the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
58. oldal - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
305. oldal - Set you down this; And say, besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcized dog, And smote him, thus.