Points of misery; or Fables for mankind, illustr. by R. Cruikshank |
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... taste , and excite the attention of the beau monde ; he is a fantastical oddity , and mistakes this whim- sical humour of his for independence of mind ; and yet it must be admitted he is the most entertaining company imaginable when his ...
... taste , and excite the attention of the beau monde ; he is a fantastical oddity , and mistakes this whim- sical humour of his for independence of mind ; and yet it must be admitted he is the most entertaining company imaginable when his ...
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... taste or a touch . And yet men will tell you in common speech that all this was ' nothing , ' but merely fancy . ' What then is death ? Is that a fancy ? or is it A sleep and a forgetting ? " or what ? That ditch which is to grave us ...
... taste or a touch . And yet men will tell you in common speech that all this was ' nothing , ' but merely fancy . ' What then is death ? Is that a fancy ? or is it A sleep and a forgetting ? " or what ? That ditch which is to grave us ...
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... taste ; Lynn shrimps from the Land's End , Cornwall ; or prawns that have not tasted sea - water for six weeks . I had almost forgot the fresh water - cresses , plucked from the purling streams which meander through the deposi- tories ...
... taste ; Lynn shrimps from the Land's End , Cornwall ; or prawns that have not tasted sea - water for six weeks . I had almost forgot the fresh water - cresses , plucked from the purling streams which meander through the deposi- tories ...
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... taste the blissful life Of a kind husband and a loving wife ; ' but , alas ! I believe I am doomed to misery . Hitherto my fondness for the sports of the field and the chase have occupied my chief attention ; and , as I have no town re ...
... taste the blissful life Of a kind husband and a loving wife ; ' but , alas ! I believe I am doomed to misery . Hitherto my fondness for the sports of the field and the chase have occupied my chief attention ; and , as I have no town re ...
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... taste ( see vignette ) : followed in a strange perturba- tion of mind all the way to Leicester - fields , had worked my- self up to the highest state of anticipatory pleasure , when , wheeling round the corner of Sidney's - alley ...
... taste ( see vignette ) : followed in a strange perturba- tion of mind all the way to Leicester - fields , had worked my- self up to the highest state of anticipatory pleasure , when , wheeling round the corner of Sidney's - alley ...
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Almack's amusement Apoplexy artificial limb bailiffs balusters beauty bewitching Birmingham brain breakfast bright eyes Brummagem Bustler chimera clouds coach coat Cockney cold corner countenance cravat creatures Dashwood delight devil Dick door dreadful dreams earth eyes facetious fancied fashion fat landlady feeling fellow female fortune genii gentleman glance hand harridan head heart honour Horse humour hurry Hymen hypochondriac hyppish imagination Kitty knock Lady Mary laugh legs lives London lodging-house look Lord maid MARCUS MERRYWEATHER Marriage melancholy merry mind mirth misanthrope MISERIES OF AUTHORCRAFT Miss Seymour morning MULLIGRUBS never night nymphs old lady Oxford pass pavement persons Peter Pious pleasure pocket poet POINT VII Points of Misery poor portmanteau Ralph RANTIPOLES round Saluted says seat sixteen stone smoke Sociable sparkling species spirit stairs street taste Thespis thing thousand Tom's town violoncello Waddler wife window witty
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Сторінка 69 - And tatter'd covering, shrilly bawls his trade, Rousing the sleepy housemaid. At the door The milk-pail rattles, and the tinkling bell Proclaims the dustman's office; while the street Is lost in clouds impervious. Now begins The din of hackney-coaches, waggons, carts; While tinmen's shops, and noisy trunk-makers, Knife-grinders, coopers, squeaking cork-cutters, Fruit barrows, and the hunger-giving cries Of vegetable venders, fill the air.
Сторінка 68 - Buy my flounders, and is followed by an old burly drab, that screams out the sale of her maids and her soul at the same instant. Here a sooty chimney-sweeper takes the wall of a grave alderman, and a broom-man jostles the parson of the parish. There a fat greasy porter runs a trunk full-butt upon you, while another salutes your antlers with a basket of eggs and butter. Turn out there, you country putt, says a bully with a sword two yards long jarring at his heels, and throws him into the kennel.
Сторінка 86 - Had spoilt the best chintz curtains and the paper And cost her many a pound in stucco : And then she quoted our King James, who saith "Tobacco is the Devil's breath.
Сторінка 67 - London is a world by itself; we daily discover in it more new countries and surprising singularities than in all the universe besides. There are among the Londoners so many nations differing in manners, customs, and religions, that the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of ‘em. Imagine, then, what an Indian would think of such a motley herd of people...
Сторінка 97 - The sheriff being *answerable for the misdemesnors (17) of these bailiffs, they are therefore usually bound in an obligation with sureties for the due execution of their office, and thence are called bound-bailiffs; which the common people have corrupted into a much more homely appellation.
Сторінка 70 - Is slily open'd, and the half-worn suit (Sometimes the pilfer'd treasure of the base Domestic spoiler), for one half its worth, Sinks in the green abyss. The porter now Bears his huge load along the burning way ; And the poor poet wakes from busy dreams, To paint the summer morning.
Сторінка 17 - ... empty dreams. But this is with you for ever. The' phantom of fear is always about you. You feel it in the day at every turn ; and at night you see it illuminated and made terrible, in a million fantastic shapes.
Сторінка 85 - twas meat, and drink, and physic, To see the friendly vapour Curl round his midnight taper, And the black fume Clothe all the room, In clouds as dark as science mataphysic.
Сторінка 86 - So still he smoked, and drank, and crack'd his joke; and, had he single tarried, he might have smoked, and still grown old in smoke : but Richard married. His wife was one who carried the cleanly virtues almost to a vice, she was so nice : and thrice a week, above, below, the house was...