Sketches from Life, 3. kötetH. Colburn, 1846 |
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29. oldal
... practice common to many of the choleric , that of taking off their hats , flinging them at the first object they see , and then kicking them , regardless of expense , is one that seems to have arisen out of an instinctive feeling ; but ...
... practice common to many of the choleric , that of taking off their hats , flinging them at the first object they see , and then kicking them , regardless of expense , is one that seems to have arisen out of an instinctive feeling ; but ...
82. oldal
... practices ) to begging mothers with hungry children cry- ing and clinging about them ; so now on a larger scale he pursued the same plan , and was seldom without a happy face , save when he witnessed misery he could not relieve . Lucky ...
... practices ) to begging mothers with hungry children cry- ing and clinging about them ; so now on a larger scale he pursued the same plan , and was seldom without a happy face , save when he witnessed misery he could not relieve . Lucky ...
90. oldal
... consoling in the reflection , that great as is the vice of lying , nine - tenths of it as now in practice spring from the virtues ! The vilest miscreant , for one lie uttered in malice , tells a hundred 90 EVERY - DAY LYING .
... consoling in the reflection , that great as is the vice of lying , nine - tenths of it as now in practice spring from the virtues ! The vilest miscreant , for one lie uttered in malice , tells a hundred 90 EVERY - DAY LYING .
94. oldal
... practice of Dick Whisk . Dick , indeed , was a class in himself . He differed from other liars , not so much in the length of his bow , as in never departing from the principle with which he set out , that of drawing it incessantly . He ...
... practice of Dick Whisk . Dick , indeed , was a class in himself . He differed from other liars , not so much in the length of his bow , as in never departing from the principle with which he set out , that of drawing it incessantly . He ...
123. oldal
... practice hitherto in operation , as respects presentation pencil- cases , snuff - boxes , soup - tureens , and wine - coolers . Everybody knows that the present practice is , for some backward , blushing , modest creature , who has been ...
... practice hitherto in operation , as respects presentation pencil- cases , snuff - boxes , soup - tureens , and wine - coolers . Everybody knows that the present practice is , for some backward , blushing , modest creature , who has been ...
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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.