Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, Volumen1R. Tyas, 1840 |
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... called to see and hear the grinning face and vacant non- sense of a glib story - teller , and they discovered in their new acquaintance a depth and delicacy of sympathy , a knowledge of human life , and a wise gladness , a philosophic ...
... called to see and hear the grinning face and vacant non- sense of a glib story - teller , and they discovered in their new acquaintance a depth and delicacy of sympathy , a knowledge of human life , and a wise gladness , a philosophic ...
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... called on to bear with " patient shrug " -a story not invented , but taken from the iron book of real life , we propose to end our present essay . The names , the reader may be assured , are the only fictions in the narrative . Fanny ...
... called on to bear with " patient shrug " -a story not invented , but taken from the iron book of real life , we propose to end our present essay . The names , the reader may be assured , are the only fictions in the narrative . Fanny ...
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... called upon to sweat and labour for daily offerings of meat and drink - the said household gods being most clamorous , most constant , in their calls on butcher , baker , and brewer ; but , turning from his own unconsecrated hearth ...
... called upon to sweat and labour for daily offerings of meat and drink - the said household gods being most clamorous , most constant , in their calls on butcher , baker , and brewer ; but , turning from his own unconsecrated hearth ...
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... incomings , his risings and sittings , were invariable . But he now became volatile , transitive , discrepant - a breathing enigma . His wife he himself endearingly called her his " old woman " -could not make THE STOCK - BROKER . 19.
... incomings , his risings and sittings , were invariable . But he now became volatile , transitive , discrepant - a breathing enigma . His wife he himself endearingly called her his " old woman " -could not make THE STOCK - BROKER . 19.
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Or, Portraits of the English. called her his " old woman " -could not make him out at all . " Drat the man ! what was he after ? running in and out , and out and in , like a dog in a dancing school . His top - story wanted repair ; he ...
Or, Portraits of the English. called her his " old woman " -could not make him out at all . " Drat the man ! what was he after ? running in and out , and out and in , like a dog in a dancing school . His top - story wanted repair ; he ...
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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.