Sketches from Life, 3. kötetHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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18. oldal
... promise made , he always contrived to fulfil it ; though it was often ten chances to one that he did not , and he appeared to keep his engagements by miracle . As the hour drew nigh , you would imagine that he had just received tidings ...
... promise made , he always contrived to fulfil it ; though it was often ten chances to one that he did not , and he appeared to keep his engagements by miracle . As the hour drew nigh , you would imagine that he had just received tidings ...
31. oldal
... promise is so much cried up as in the Froth family ; and whoever happens to be intimate with any of its members knows particularly well that there is not an atom of that virtue existing amongst them . Conscientious exactness is insisted ...
... promise is so much cried up as in the Froth family ; and whoever happens to be intimate with any of its members knows particularly well that there is not an atom of that virtue existing amongst them . Conscientious exactness is insisted ...
32. oldal
... promises , conclude it done . " Who would not believe in their belief when they join in one note , " What a blessing to have children around one in whom every body can place reliance ! " And the children themselves echo the conscious ...
... promises , conclude it done . " Who would not believe in their belief when they join in one note , " What a blessing to have children around one in whom every body can place reliance ! " And the children themselves echo the conscious ...
33. oldal
... promise , with its first frag- ments of words , and instalments of innocent nursery phrases , to cry lustily for hours , with all the lungs it could command , would nobody credit the babe ! The nuisance would be otherwise probable , but ...
... promise , with its first frag- ments of words , and instalments of innocent nursery phrases , to cry lustily for hours , with all the lungs it could command , would nobody credit the babe ! The nuisance would be otherwise probable , but ...
34. oldal
... promise . Nick Froth is as noisy as the sea surf , and about as safe in his mode of handling those he serves . Escape his intervention you cannot . Whatever be the affair you have in hand , he insists upon taking it at once out of your ...
... promise . Nick Froth is as noisy as the sea surf , and about as safe in his mode of handling those he serves . Escape his intervention you cannot . Whatever be the affair you have in hand , he insists upon taking it at once out of your ...
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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.