Sketches from Life, 3. kötetHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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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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acquaintance admiring appear beauty borrowed character Charles Lamb choly Christian Smith Colley Cibber consistency course creature creditor dead dear death Dipple door Encouragement of Hearts excellent excuse eyes favour favourite feel fellow Froth gentleman give guinea Hamlet hand happen happy head heard high notions honour hour human voices idea inconsistent innocent instant Jack Jaundice Julius Cæsar keep Kitty knocked lady Lagfoot late laugh legs less letter living look marriage married melan mind moral morning nature neighbours never night object observe occasion once Panjandrum Parallel party passion pay double perhaps persons play pleasure Polonius poor principle procrastination promise punctual quarrel quiet racter reason recollect seemed shilling similes Society soul speak spirit sure talk tell thing thought tion truth turn Twickenham utter virtue whist wife wonder word Young England
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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.
336. oldal - The spirit, that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps, Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, (As he is very potent with such spirits,) Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
161. oldal - He was a man, take him for all in all, We ne'er shall look upon his like again.
334. oldal - How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
211. oldal - Or her, who laughs at Hell, but (like her Grace) Cries, 'Ah! how charming, if there's no such place!
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...
336. oldal - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen. No more ! Ham. A king of shreds and patches, — Enter Ghost.
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.