Old Faces in New MasksW. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue), 1859 - 391 páginas |
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... Look , now , at their ingenuity . Being prohibited by law from keeping fish fresh by means of the watering - pot , and finding that customers , as the day advances , become more and more shy , two salesmen agree together to get up a ...
... Look , now , at their ingenuity . Being prohibited by law from keeping fish fresh by means of the watering - pot , and finding that customers , as the day advances , become more and more shy , two salesmen agree together to get up a ...
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... looks as if she could drown him too , for a very small consideration . " Add to this the testi- mony of a recent French traveller in Italy : " You can form but a faint idea of the grotesque scenes which we have witnessed in the Italian ...
... looks as if she could drown him too , for a very small consideration . " Add to this the testi- mony of a recent French traveller in Italy : " You can form but a faint idea of the grotesque scenes which we have witnessed in the Italian ...
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... look out on the ever - charming beauty of the landscape , dipping again into some dainty honeycomb of literature , wandering from author to author to catch the echoes which fly from book to book , and by silent sug- gestions or ...
... look out on the ever - charming beauty of the landscape , dipping again into some dainty honeycomb of literature , wandering from author to author to catch the echoes which fly from book to book , and by silent sug- gestions or ...
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... look out of my window , while I am gone back to the Acropolis to see what they have been about . The architects are building night and day , like them of old , without the sound of a hammer ; my artists are painting , my designers are ...
... look out of my window , while I am gone back to the Acropolis to see what they have been about . The architects are building night and day , like them of old , without the sound of a hammer ; my artists are painting , my designers are ...
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... Look throughout the works of the all - wise Creator . The oak is majestic and strong , and lives out the memory of its planter , but it is comparatively barren . The smaller trees are compensated by their fruitfulness . The shrubs that ...
... Look throughout the works of the all - wise Creator . The oak is majestic and strong , and lives out the memory of its planter , but it is comparatively barren . The smaller trees are compensated by their fruitfulness . The shrubs that ...
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Página 214 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place : I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, — that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Página 144 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...
Página 215 - For this reason, and for no other, viz. that, when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, eg that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day...
Página 216 - ... and measured progression, to pass over a given space in a given time. We take notice that the wheels are made of brass in order to keep them from rust; the springs of steel, no other metal being so elastic; that over the face of the watch there is placed a glass, a material employed in no other part of the work, but in the room of which, if there had been any other than a transparent substance, the hour could not be seen without opening the case.
Página 377 - It wears two boots and no spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot ; and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies wear the boot. Moreover, it makes people imitate seacrabs, in being drawn sideways, as they are when they sit in the boot of the coach.
Página 215 - ... manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts, and of their offices, all tending to one result: — We see a cylindrical box containing a coiled, elastic spring, which, by its endeavour to relax itself, turns round the box.
Página 144 - Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 178 - Pamphlets, cards, and prints swarm again : George Townshend has published one of the latter, which is so admirable in its kind, that I cannot help sending it to you. His genius for likenesses in caricature is astonishing — indeed, Lord Winchelsea's figure is not heightened — you friends Dodington and Lord Sandwich are like ; the former made me laugh till I cried.
Página 227 - The man had sure a palate cover'd o'er With brass or steel, that on the rocky shore First broke the oozy oyster's pearly coat, And risk'd the living morsel down his throat.
Página 230 - shoots," and each of them marks a year's growth ; so that, by counting them, we can determine at a glance the year when the creature came into the world. Up to the...