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... sure of this , the worst will be spoken . ' " That's the very circumstance I complain of , " retorted Leather- lungs , with a sort of serio - comic bitterness . " Here goes your moral prostitute , with the cloak of wealth and fashion ...
... sure of this , the worst will be spoken . ' " That's the very circumstance I complain of , " retorted Leather- lungs , with a sort of serio - comic bitterness . " Here goes your moral prostitute , with the cloak of wealth and fashion ...
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... sure of being in at the death and " brushing him . " They had got so jolly , and were so elated with getting the brush , that it was deter- mined amongst them that , like sportsmen of old , they should have the fox's head put into a can ...
... sure of being in at the death and " brushing him . " They had got so jolly , and were so elated with getting the brush , that it was deter- mined amongst them that , like sportsmen of old , they should have the fox's head put into a can ...
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... sure , we should advise an early visit to the stable the morning after the gallop , and then have the horse in question walked out on the stones ; by this means it will be easily seen whether he goes stiff , lame , or sound . In days ...
... sure , we should advise an early visit to the stable the morning after the gallop , and then have the horse in question walked out on the stones ; by this means it will be easily seen whether he goes stiff , lame , or sound . In days ...
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... sure , " was Ned Fullbert's reply , as he caught a terrier by the tail , and quietly dropped him through the hollow of the tree . " Now , look below , gentlemen ; Fox is aboard him ; and if he don't bolt in a second or two , I'm ...
... sure , " was Ned Fullbert's reply , as he caught a terrier by the tail , and quietly dropped him through the hollow of the tree . " Now , look below , gentlemen ; Fox is aboard him ; and if he don't bolt in a second or two , I'm ...
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... sure , if I reserve some small quantity in bottle for future use . In the meantime I will promise them , at no very distant date , a biographical sketch of Ned Fullbert , who for forty years has had no common intercourse with our ...
... sure , if I reserve some small quantity in bottle for future use . In the meantime I will promise them , at no very distant date , a biographical sketch of Ned Fullbert , who for forty years has had no common intercourse with our ...
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Page 66 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 198 - I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 124 - Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms, Green to the very door...
Page 198 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I...
Page 42 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Page 49 - The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 18 - Which was a rare thing then, When this old cap was new. Then bribery was unborn, No simony men did use ; Christians did usury scorn, Devised among the Jews. The lawyers to be fee'd At that time hardly knew : For man with man agreed, When this old cap was new.
Page 18 - And are not help'd by any ; For charity waxeth cold, And love is found in few ; This was not in time of old, When this old cap was new.
Page 19 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more they' admire his sleight of hand...
Page 17 - When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood, That never bow'd his stubborn knee To anything but chivalry, Nor put up blow, but that which laid Right Worshipful on shoulder-blade ; Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel...