Whimsicalities: a periodical gathering. To which are added: 'York and Lancaster' and 'Lost and found', the 'Epping hunt' and 'Eugene Aram'.1878 |
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... person for a French usher . WIL . Ah , Sare , you flatter at me . SNAFF . Why , mun , I've been in the cavalry - like myself : - had a deal to do wi ' the tits . I suppose , now , you spoilt lots o ' pretty nags in the campaigning ...
... person for a French usher . WIL . Ah , Sare , you flatter at me . SNAFF . Why , mun , I've been in the cavalry - like myself : - had a deal to do wi ' the tits . I suppose , now , you spoilt lots o ' pretty nags in the campaigning ...
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... persons to choose for you . selected . MISS D. You have selected ! They are the And indeed we have LADY B. Pray make yourself easy , the match has had the maturest consideration . It was made up , as I may say , at the baptismal font ...
... persons to choose for you . selected . MISS D. You have selected ! They are the And indeed we have LADY B. Pray make yourself easy , the match has had the maturest consideration . It was made up , as I may say , at the baptismal font ...
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... persons such a romance might be attractive , but for my own part I confess a prejudice against such hasty prepossessions ... person , you would assign me to him for life ! LADY B. Certainly . The urgency of Lord Ravensdale's flight , the ...
... persons such a romance might be attractive , but for my own part I confess a prejudice against such hasty prepossessions ... person , you would assign me to him for life ! LADY B. Certainly . The urgency of Lord Ravensdale's flight , the ...
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... person , a client from Wiltshire . SNAP . O yes , Sir , a rustical snobbish sort of fellow . TRAVERS ( testily ) . Zounds ! Sirrah , will you hear me ? I say if he calls again , I am gone out , gone into the country , gone abroad , and ...
... person , a client from Wiltshire . SNAP . O yes , Sir , a rustical snobbish sort of fellow . TRAVERS ( testily ) . Zounds ! Sirrah , will you hear me ? I say if he calls again , I am gone out , gone into the country , gone abroad , and ...
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... persons , bearing an indefinite proportion to the gross total of the population of the British empire , have been more or less " abroad . " Not politically , or metaphysically , or figuratively , but literally out of the kingdom , or ...
... persons , bearing an indefinite proportion to the gross total of the population of the British empire , have been more or less " abroad . " Not politically , or metaphysically , or figuratively , but literally out of the kingdom , or ...
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Whimsicalities; a Periodical Gathering. To which are Added: "York and ... Thomas Hood Vista completa - 1870 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 222 - No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day — No sky — no earthly view — No distance looking blue — No road — no street — no "t'other side the way...
Página 266 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Página 595 - With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran ; — There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began : In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where...
Página 587 - Twas in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran, and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool.
Página 590 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old ; I led him to a lonely field, The moon shone clear and cold : Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold ! "Two sudden blows with ragged stick.
Página 581 - In June, 1757, William Thompson, for all the vigilance of this place, in open daylight, and double-ironed, made his escape ; and, notwithstanding an immediate inquiry set on foot, the strictest search, and all advertisement, was never seen or heard of since. If then Thompson got off unseen, through all these difficulties, how very easy was it for...
Página 585 - ... the learning, and the integrity of this place, to impute to the living what zeal in its fury may have done ; what nature may have taken off, and piety interred; or what war alone may have destroyed, alone deposited.
Página 590 - He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain : For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain !
Página 581 - Besides, it must needs occur to every one, that an action of this atrocious nature is never heard of but when its springs are laid open, it appears that it was to support some indolence, or supply some luxury; to satisfy some avarice, or oblige some malice; to prevent some real, or some imaginary want: yet I lay not under the influence of any one of these. Surely, my lord, I may, consistent with both truth and modesty, affirm thus much; and none who have any veracity, and knew me, will ever question...
Página 581 - ... before, I had been confined to my bed, and suffered under a very long and severe disorder, and was not able, for half a year together, so much as to walk. The distemper left me indeed, yet slowly and in part ; but so macerated, so enfeebled, that I was reduced to crutches...