Flim-flams!: Or, The Life and Errors of My Uncle, and the Amours of My Aunt!, Volume 3John Murray, 1805 - 9 pages |
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... So wither'd and so wild in their attire , That look not like th ' inhabitants of the earth , And yet are on it ! Wildly she exclaimed - I have such a tele- scope ! I have a tube three feet in diame- ter ! I assure you not twelve men at ...
... So wither'd and so wild in their attire , That look not like th ' inhabitants of the earth , And yet are on it ! Wildly she exclaimed - I have such a tele- scope ! I have a tube three feet in diame- ter ! I assure you not twelve men at ...
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Page 72 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips : — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
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Page 84 - ... some years before my acquaintance commenced with it, and had been admired by my father for its size, (being the largest I ever met with,) who constantly paid it a visit every evening. I knew...
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Page 25 - All formal repetition of other men's • ideas seems to be a scheme for imprisoning for so long a time the operations of our own mind. It borders, perhaps in this respect upon a breach of sincerity, which requires that we should give immediate utterance to every useful and valuable idea that occurs to our thoughts.
Page 74 - And each particular hair did stand erect, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Page 152 - For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full; 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.
Page 85 - ... stuck to the tip by a glutinous matter. The motion is quicker than the eye can follow. I cannot say how long my father had been acquainted with the toad, before I knew it ; but when I was first acquainted with it, he used to mention it as the old toad I have known so many years ; I can answer for thirty-six years.