Sketches from Life, 3. kötetH. Colburn, 1846 |
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2. oldal
... sure to beat in his face , whether he moved north or south , east or west . The poor old wanderer soon came to a standstill once more . The spot was lonelier and darker , and while the shower beat fiercely against him he had recourse to ...
... sure to beat in his face , whether he moved north or south , east or west . The poor old wanderer soon came to a standstill once more . The spot was lonelier and darker , and while the shower beat fiercely against him he had recourse to ...
12. oldal
... sure that she had known him all her life , though she had never seen him but that once ? What spirits he had ! Other men had their jovial moods , but Jack was always jovial . To be lively by fits and starts , to be delightful when the ...
... sure that she had known him all her life , though she had never seen him but that once ? What spirits he had ! Other men had their jovial moods , but Jack was always jovial . To be lively by fits and starts , to be delightful when the ...
21. oldal
... sure to set him off at a pace past stopping ! The image of " Patience on a monument smiling at Grief " has been greatly admired , but as a design it would hardly hold together for five minutes . Shaks- peare was a little out for once ...
... sure to set him off at a pace past stopping ! The image of " Patience on a monument smiling at Grief " has been greatly admired , but as a design it would hardly hold together for five minutes . Shaks- peare was a little out for once ...
24. oldal
... offends you , abuse all Scotland , and offer to prove that Burns was no poet ; when an Irishman puts you in a heat , be sure to denounce Ireland , and hint that St. Patrick was no gentleman , nor were his 24 PASSIONATE PEOPLE .
... offends you , abuse all Scotland , and offer to prove that Burns was no poet ; when an Irishman puts you in a heat , be sure to denounce Ireland , and hint that St. Patrick was no gentleman , nor were his 24 PASSIONATE PEOPLE .
25. oldal
... sure to please , instead of annoying a member of his family ; who won't much mind a back- handed hit at himself , if you direct the principal force of your attack against the national character . It is expedient , therefore , to be less ...
... sure to please , instead of annoying a member of his family ; who won't much mind a back- handed hit at himself , if you direct the principal force of your attack against the national character . It is expedient , therefore , to be less ...
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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.