Sketches from Life, 3. kötetH. Colburn, 1846 |
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32. oldal
... remarks Julia ; " sensitive to a fault about the sanctity of his word . He would forfeit life in one instant , rather than fail to redeem any trifling pledge that he had given . " 66 ' Really , " cries Joseph , once a day , " if there ...
... remarks Julia ; " sensitive to a fault about the sanctity of his word . He would forfeit life in one instant , rather than fail to redeem any trifling pledge that he had given . " 66 ' Really , " cries Joseph , once a day , " if there ...
41. oldal
... remark , with perfect impunity , " I always , " & c . But although all these people , the majority of the promising crowds who are about us everywhere , regard themselves as persons of their word , and are so to this extent that they ...
... remark , with perfect impunity , " I always , " & c . But although all these people , the majority of the promising crowds who are about us everywhere , regard themselves as persons of their word , and are so to this extent that they ...
50. oldal
... remark that persons who always keep their word recognise in it more and more a sacredness beyond the letter of it , and are the first to feel that they are sometimes bound by a solemn contract , even where they have uttered no syllable ...
... remark that persons who always keep their word recognise in it more and more a sacredness beyond the letter of it , and are the first to feel that they are sometimes bound by a solemn contract , even where they have uttered no syllable ...
58. oldal
... remark that they are going to tell us " all about it , " they oftentimes remind us - dull companions though they be of that outrageous and incomprehensible piece of drollery of Foote's , which the wise reader who loves genuine nonsense ...
... remark that they are going to tell us " all about it , " they oftentimes remind us - dull companions though they be of that outrageous and incomprehensible piece of drollery of Foote's , which the wise reader who loves genuine nonsense ...
74. oldal
... remarked upon . There is one vice ( for practically it is a vice ) of which we do not always believe a man guilty even ... remark- able that these persons live in glass - houses . Half the stones fall about their own ears , and for every ...
... remarked upon . There is one vice ( for practically it is a vice ) of which we do not always believe a man guilty even ... remark- able that these persons live in glass - houses . Half the stones fall about their own ears , and for every ...
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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.