The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots: With Other Sketches of the TimesLea & Blanchard, 1839 - 155 páginas |
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... stand , and Monsieur Poopoo did the same . " I now offer you , gentlemen , these magnificent lots , delightfully situated on Long - Island , with valu- able water privileges . Property in fee - title in- disputable - terms of sale ...
... stand , and Monsieur Poopoo did the same . " I now offer you , gentlemen , these magnificent lots , delightfully situated on Long - Island , with valu- able water privileges . Property in fee - title in- disputable - terms of sale ...
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... stand there . " 66 ' What , the twenty - five cents ? " " Every fraction of it . " " And you won't go away without it ? " " Not if I stay here till doomsday : and you know the consequence of detaining me against my will . " " What is it ...
... stand there . " 66 ' What , the twenty - five cents ? " " Every fraction of it . " " And you won't go away without it ? " " Not if I stay here till doomsday : and you know the consequence of detaining me against my will . " " What is it ...
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... spacious pump - rooms , marble counters , sparkling fountains , and neat , well - dressed women to attend the visiters , as in other coun- tries , you are compelled to stand ankle - deep 56 SKETCHES FROM THE SPRINGS .
... spacious pump - rooms , marble counters , sparkling fountains , and neat , well - dressed women to attend the visiters , as in other coun- tries , you are compelled to stand ankle - deep 56 SKETCHES FROM THE SPRINGS .
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... stand ankle - deep in the mud , or upon a miserable platform , constructed over a filthy brook , and receive the water from a bare- footed , meanly - clad juvenile , who dips it up in an unclean vessel , and flings it at you with a ...
... stand ankle - deep in the mud , or upon a miserable platform , constructed over a filthy brook , and receive the water from a bare- footed , meanly - clad juvenile , who dips it up in an unclean vessel , and flings it at you with a ...
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... occupants , another arrives at the gate ; and there stands mine host of the Congress , ever ready to " Welcome the coming - speed the parting guest . " E The hasty farewell is scarcely spoken , before the " SKETCHES FROM THE SPRINGS. ...
... occupants , another arrives at the gate ; and there stands mine host of the Congress , ever ready to " Welcome the coming - speed the parting guest . " E The hasty farewell is scarcely spoken , before the " SKETCHES FROM THE SPRINGS. ...
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admiration Albany arrived attorney auctioneer banks Barnes Barnes.-Well beauty bell Belmont Beverley Lee bought lots broker called carriage Charles Kemble Christian complaint consequence countenance counting-house dear dividend doctor eyes feelings fellow flute Flying Dutchman Guido Hackett hand hear heard heart HENRY RUSSELL Hilson honour hope hour hundred infernal Jacob Barker Jack Robinson Jamaica jobber Jonathan Kemble Knowles l'argent lady leave leetle sleeps LETTER listen Lithography LITTLE FRENCHMAN Long-Island look Major Noah matter merchant mister Mivins Monopoly Monsieur Poopoo never New-York night paid parties PAUL PRY People's Line person piece play pocket poor publick recollect replied SARATOGA sare SKETCHES smile sorry specting spirit SPRINGS stand steamboats stood story theatre thing Thou canst thought thousand dollars tion took town tree turned valuarble vatare Wall-street WATER LOTS wonder woodman words
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Página 92 - WOODMAN, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down?
Página 1 - You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. WITCHES vanish. BAN. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Página 93 - When but an idle boy, I sought its grateful shade; In all their gushing joy Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here; My father pressed my hand — Forgive this foolish tear, But let that old oak stand.
Página 90 - Riding out of town a few days since, in company with a friend, an old gentleman, he invited me to turn down a little, romantic woodland pass, not far from Bloomingdale. " Your object?" inquired I. " Merely to look once more at an old tree planted by my grandfather long before I was born, under which I used to play when a boy, and where my sisters played with me. There I often listened to the good advice of my parents. Father, mother, sisters — all are gone; nothing but the old tree remains.
Página 90 - And a paleness overspread his fine countenance, and tears came to his eyes. After a moment's pause, he added: " Don't think me foolish. I don't know how it is: I never ride out but I turn down this lane to look at that old tree. I have a thousand recollections about it, and I always greet it as a familiar and well-remembered friend.
Página 27 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Página 102 - " No, monsieur, I must have him." " You must ? " " Oui, monsieur," said little dimity breeches, turning pale with apprehension for the safety of his money. " And you can't do without it ? " " No, monsieur, not von other leetle moment longare.
Página 129 - Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen. Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppetshow : Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master-wire.
Página 22 - ... auction-room — his horse in a foam and himself in a fury. The auctioneer was leaning back in his chair, with his legs stuck out of a low window, quietly smoking a cigar after the labors of the day, and humming the music from the last new opera.