Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, Volumen1R. Tyas, 1840 |
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... known , is a Diner - Out of some distinction- " House- hold gods ! Pooh ! -I keep a horse . " The Diner - Out is , certainly , the professor of what may be con- sidered one of the most difficult arts of life . This fact is proved by the ...
... known , is a Diner - Out of some distinction- " House- hold gods ! Pooh ! -I keep a horse . " The Diner - Out is , certainly , the professor of what may be con- sidered one of the most difficult arts of life . This fact is proved by the ...
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... known to utter a brilliant witticism at the cost of any dinner - giver . The people will laugh heartily at the time ; but they will all remember that the Diner - Out wears a dangerous weapon ; and wits , like drunken men with swords ...
... known to utter a brilliant witticism at the cost of any dinner - giver . The people will laugh heartily at the time ; but they will all remember that the Diner - Out wears a dangerous weapon ; and wits , like drunken men with swords ...
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... known . What is the butcher to the Diner - Out ? No other than the exe- cutioner to the cook - the cut - throat to the kitchen . The fishmonger is a kind of benevolent Triton ; a creature bringing the treasures of the deep to earth ...
... known . What is the butcher to the Diner - Out ? No other than the exe- cutioner to the cook - the cut - throat to the kitchen . The fishmonger is a kind of benevolent Triton ; a creature bringing the treasures of the deep to earth ...
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... known , that Parsons had been for thirty years a locomotive clock that never required to be wound up . You might tell the hour by him , the minute : his outgoings and incomings , his risings and sittings , were invariable . But he now ...
... known , that Parsons had been for thirty years a locomotive clock that never required to be wound up . You might tell the hour by him , the minute : his outgoings and incomings , his risings and sittings , were invariable . But he now ...
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... known , ) I pounced my parchment , for the skin is even in its prepared state unctuous with the relics of mutton - ity , ( this isn't English , but I can't help it , ) and commenced lease , release , roll , or record . " Next day ' twas ...
... known , ) I pounced my parchment , for the skin is even in its prepared state unctuous with the relics of mutton - ity , ( this isn't English , but I can't help it , ) and commenced lease , release , roll , or record . " Next day ' twas ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.