The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Том 1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 стор. |
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... person . What can be expected but irregularity and disturbance , when our grammar is in such a state of anarchy ? This comes of Reform !! Ah ! it is to be feared that we shall none of us have the consolation of Danjeau , the French ...
... person . What can be expected but irregularity and disturbance , when our grammar is in such a state of anarchy ? This comes of Reform !! Ah ! it is to be feared that we shall none of us have the consolation of Danjeau , the French ...
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... person , to save our souls as to shave our chins , what an immaculate race should we become ! Exteriorly , we are not a filthy people . We throw so much dirt at our neighbours , that we have none left for ourselves . We are only unclean ...
... person , to save our souls as to shave our chins , what an immaculate race should we become ! Exteriorly , we are not a filthy people . We throw so much dirt at our neighbours , that we have none left for ourselves . We are only unclean ...
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... person , " observed the magistrate , " who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had a natural child two or three years ago . " - " Yes , your Worship , " whimpered the culprit ...
... person , " observed the magistrate , " who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had a natural child two or three years ago . " - " Yes , your Worship , " whimpered the culprit ...
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... persons , is never undignified , never ungraceful . An adherence to nature , however , is by no means incompatible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by ...
... persons , is never undignified , never ungraceful . An adherence to nature , however , is by no means incompatible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by ...
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... person , and his office by some courteous periphrase , or concealing both beneath the appropriate veil of a dead language , would speak of him as - Vir excellentissimus , strangulandi peritus . In a Shrewsbury Address to James I. , his ...
... person , and his office by some courteous periphrase , or concealing both beneath the appropriate veil of a dead language , would speak of him as - Vir excellentissimus , strangulandi peritus . In a Shrewsbury Address to James I. , his ...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Том 1 Horace Smith Повний перегляд - 1836 |
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Сторінка 60 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree...
Сторінка 238 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Сторінка 238 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Сторінка 152 - Aeolides laboris: linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum quas colis arborum te praeter invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetur: absumet heres Caecuba dignior servata centum clavibus et mero tinget pavimentum superbo, pontificum potiore cenis.
Сторінка 207 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy ! S.
Сторінка 68 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Сторінка 275 - I would only ask, why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome laws, made every third or fourth year in parliament assembled ; devising remedies as fast as time breedeth mischief: and contrariwise the ecclesiastical state should still continue upon the dregs of time, and receive no alteration now for these...
Сторінка 188 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Сторінка 222 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Сторінка 148 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.