Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, Volumen1R. Tyas, 1840 |
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... Susan cannot now make out how she does her daily duties , unless she is helped by the fairies , or has dealings with the : but that unworthy personage is most suspected when he is most innocent ; and , as for the fairies , they have ...
... Susan cannot now make out how she does her daily duties , unless she is helped by the fairies , or has dealings with the : but that unworthy personage is most suspected when he is most innocent ; and , as for the fairies , they have ...
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... Susan , so she does twenty times a - day , 66 or as often as Mr. Doublekey is dry , and he never seems saturated enough to keep him damp very long , " I remark . " Hah , but , " says Susan , with a magnificent toss of the head , " she ...
... Susan , so she does twenty times a - day , 66 or as often as Mr. Doublekey is dry , and he never seems saturated enough to keep him damp very long , " I remark . " Hah , but , " says Susan , with a magnificent toss of the head , " she ...
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... Susan , interrupting me , " see what a consart and ball it is she's going to honour with her white gown with four flounces ! " And , as Susan says these contemptuous things , she draws from behind her bodice a small bill of the ...
... Susan , interrupting me , " see what a consart and ball it is she's going to honour with her white gown with four flounces ! " And , as Susan says these contemptuous things , she draws from behind her bodice a small bill of the ...
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... Susan , doing the same for her , pass over the stage . I turn from the window , and ponder on the caprices of women generally , and my maid in particular - so often as she has declared that she wouldn't have a man who might be called ...
... Susan , doing the same for her , pass over the stage . I turn from the window , and ponder on the caprices of women generally , and my maid in particular - so often as she has declared that she wouldn't have a man who might be called ...
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... Susan Hawkins , the girl who waited in the parlour ; and of Tom Trotter , the pot - boy of " The Castle " these individuals appertaining and belonging to the establishment , and being on that score entitled to take precedence of their ...
... Susan Hawkins , the girl who waited in the parlour ; and of Tom Trotter , the pot - boy of " The Castle " these individuals appertaining and belonging to the establishment , and being on that score entitled to take precedence of their ...
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admiration Asgill Atkins Ballad-Singer beadle beautiful Beccles better bless Bollington Brahmin Bubb Cabinet Minister called Captain Rook Chatham clerk Cockney colour Common Informer creature cried daughter dear Diner-Out dinner doctor door DOUGLAS JERROLD English English Peasant exclaimed eyes face Farmer's Daughter fashionable father favour feel fellow gentleman girl give Grayson hand happy head hear heard heart Hillary honour hour human Ikey John Bull lady laugh live London look master Midshipman mind Miss Moidore morning mother nature never night Nightingale once Ormsby parish parlour pass Peasant Pew-Opener poor Postman pounds present pretty Printer's Devil reader replied respectable round shew shilling sing smile Spikenard spirit Street sure Susan Teetotaler teetotalism tell thing thought Tibbits Tidmarsh turn voice walk whilst wife wonder words Young Lord
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Página 367 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página 29 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 338 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 337 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 369 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Página 290 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 233 - Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And...
Página 205 - Sages, do not think my prayer Bespeaks unseemly forwardness — send me ! The coarsest reed that trembles in the marsh, If Heaven select it for its instrument, May shed celestial music on the breeze, As clearly as the pipe whose virgin gold Befits the lip of Phoebus ; — ye are wise ; And needed by your country ; ye are fathers ! I am a lone stray thing, whose little life By strangers...
Página 75 - The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Página 282 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.