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... light jest ; and yet , perhaps , not quite irrelevant in ears that could understand it . Your long and much talkers hated him . The informal habits of his mind , joined to an inveterate impediment of speech , forbade him to be an orator ...
... light jest ; and yet , perhaps , not quite irrelevant in ears that could understand it . Your long and much talkers hated him . The informal habits of his mind , joined to an inveterate impediment of speech , forbade him to be an orator ...
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... light generations have succeeded , making fine fret - work among their single and double entries . Layers of dust have accumulated ( a superfœtation of dirt ! ) upon the old layers , that seldom used to be disturbed , save by some ...
... light generations have succeeded , making fine fret - work among their single and double entries . Layers of dust have accumulated ( a superfœtation of dirt ! ) upon the old layers , that seldom used to be disturbed , save by some ...
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... light , let in askance , from a prison - orifice at top , barely enough to read by . Here the poor boy was locked in by himself all day , without sight of any but the porter who brought him his bread and water - who might not speak to ...
... light , let in askance , from a prison - orifice at top , barely enough to read by . Here the poor boy was locked in by himself all day , without sight of any but the porter who brought him his bread and water - who might not speak to ...
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... light he makes of it ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend , Ralph Bigod , Esq . , who parted this life , on Wednesday evening ; dying , as he ...
... light he makes of it ! Strain not courtesies with a noble enemy . Reflections like the foregoing were forced upon my mind by the death of my old friend , Ralph Bigod , Esq . , who parted this life , on Wednesday evening ; dying , as he ...
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... light , and vain , and humorsome ; a notorious * * * addicted to **** : averse from counsel , neither taking it nor offering it ; - *** besides ; a stammering buffoon ; what you will ; lay it on , and spare not : I subscribe to it all ...
... light , and vain , and humorsome ; a notorious * * * addicted to **** : averse from counsel , neither taking it nor offering it ; - *** besides ; a stammering buffoon ; what you will ; lay it on , and spare not : I subscribe to it all ...
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admired April Fool beauty Benchers better Bo-bo Bridget character CHARLES LAMB child CHRIST'S HOSPITAL comedy common confess countenance cousin day's pleasuring dear dreams Elgin marble Elia ESSAYS OF ELIA face fancy fear feel gentle gentleman give Gladmans grace guests hand hath head heard heart Hertfordshire honor hour humor imagination impertinent Inner Temple kind knew lady less lived look Malvolio manner Margate matter mind moral morning nature never night occasion once passed passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty Quakers reason remember ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON scarce scene seemed seen sense sight Sir Philip Sydney smile sometimes sort speak spirit sure sweet taste tender theatre thee thing thou thought tion told true truth walk watchet whist young younkers youth
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Сторінка 114 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Сторінка 157 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig. Bo-bo, whose scent was wonderfully sharpened since morning, soon raked out another pig, and fairly rending it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, 'Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord!
Сторінка 159 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most...
Сторінка 84 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Сторінка 27 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Сторінка 83 - Moon, thou climb'st the skies; How silently, and with how wan a face; What, may it be that even in...
Сторінка 158 - Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to let the secret escape, for the neighbors would certainly have stoned them for a couple of abominable wretches, who could think of improving upon the good meat which God had sent them. Nevertheless, strange stories got about. It was observed that Ho-ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever. Nothing but fires from this time forward.
Сторінка 158 - ... rending it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, "Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste, — O Lord," — with suchlike barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke.
Сторінка 83 - COME, sleep ; O sleep ! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low ; With shield of proof, shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw.
Сторінка 159 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision: and when the court was dismissed, went privily and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.