Sketches from Life, 3. kötetHenry Colburn, 1849 |
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16. oldal
... truth is , that Jack was a morbid , irresolute , wayward , cross - grained chap . He was kind - hearted in the main , and even generous ; but his temper was often sullen , and his spirit often cynical . Catch him on a winter's afternoon ...
... truth is , that Jack was a morbid , irresolute , wayward , cross - grained chap . He was kind - hearted in the main , and even generous ; but his temper was often sullen , and his spirit often cynical . Catch him on a winter's afternoon ...
32. oldal
... truth , purity , and consciousness , it is my sister , Julia Froth . To say that she never broke her word yet , is saying nothing ; I venture to assert that she never will break it ; she can't . " And yet it were wiser to walk on rotten ...
... truth , purity , and consciousness , it is my sister , Julia Froth . To say that she never broke her word yet , is saying nothing ; I venture to assert that she never will break it ; she can't . " And yet it were wiser to walk on rotten ...
40. oldal
... truth , and feels to be a comfort . He is never without his defence . He has a good reason for keeping his word , and does not like to have a worse for break- ing it . This is with Turningham a matter of conscience . When you call upon ...
... truth , and feels to be a comfort . He is never without his defence . He has a good reason for keeping his word , and does not like to have a worse for break- ing it . This is with Turningham a matter of conscience . When you call upon ...
43. oldal
... truth , it has learned the first lesson of falsehood . 66 We proceed now to a more removed ground , " and breathe a clearer atmosphere among miracles of humanity ; the people who do keep their word ! What a fairy - land have we entered ...
... truth , it has learned the first lesson of falsehood . 66 We proceed now to a more removed ground , " and breathe a clearer atmosphere among miracles of humanity ; the people who do keep their word ! What a fairy - land have we entered ...
49. oldal
... truth prevails always , breaches of the peace must be alarmingly common . Many a gentleman who never tasted beaver ( waterproof or other- wise ) in his life , has given his word that he would eat his hat if something did not turn out ...
... truth prevails always , breaches of the peace must be alarmingly common . Many a gentleman who never tasted beaver ( waterproof or other- wise ) in his life , has given his word that he would eat his hat if something did not turn out ...
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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.