The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and Tales to the Present Day, Selected for the Reading of Railway PassengersW.H. Smith and Son, 1850 - 192 Seiten |
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... George IV . , measures , when unrolled , upwards of 900 feet , or nearly twice the length of St. Paul's Cathedral , within the doors ; and if ever it should become necessary to consult the fearful volume , an able - bodied man must be ...
... George IV . , measures , when unrolled , upwards of 900 feet , or nearly twice the length of St. Paul's Cathedral , within the doors ; and if ever it should become necessary to consult the fearful volume , an able - bodied man must be ...
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... George IV . at Carlton House , to his own residence in St. James's - square , he was met by an Irish la . bourer , who , with his hod reversed , seemed as if prepared to attend the funeral of his own hopes . Long life to your honor ...
... George IV . at Carlton House , to his own residence in St. James's - square , he was met by an Irish la . bourer , who , with his hod reversed , seemed as if prepared to attend the funeral of his own hopes . Long life to your honor ...
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... GEORGE IV . In 1824 , when the question of erecting a monument to Shakspeare , in his native town , was agitated by Mr. Mathews and Mr. Bunn , the King ( George IV . ) took a lively interest in the matter , and , considering that the ...
... GEORGE IV . In 1824 , when the question of erecting a monument to Shakspeare , in his native town , was agitated by Mr. Mathews and Mr. Bunn , the King ( George IV . ) took a lively interest in the matter , and , considering that the ...
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... George IV . , when Prince of Wales , commenced his letter as follows : - " Sam , the waiter at the Cocoa Tree , presents his compliments to the Prince of Wales , " & c . His Royal Highness next day saw Sam , and after noticing the ...
... George IV . , when Prince of Wales , commenced his letter as follows : - " Sam , the waiter at the Cocoa Tree , presents his compliments to the Prince of Wales , " & c . His Royal Highness next day saw Sam , and after noticing the ...
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... GEORGE IV . AND HIS ARCHITECT . On The constant anxiety of George IV . to profit , on matters connected with literature and the arts , by the advice and opinions of professors of each science , was an interesting and remarkable trait in ...
... GEORGE IV . AND HIS ARCHITECT . On The constant anxiety of George IV . to profit , on matters connected with literature and the arts , by the advice and opinions of professors of each science , was an interesting and remarkable trait in ...
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Seite 95 - Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Seite 5 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Seite 62 - OLD King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three.
Seite 37 - Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Seite 2 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 177 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 33 - Believe me, nothing except a battle lost, can be half so melancholy as a battle won...
Seite 111 - ... of general curiosity and intelligence had not arrived. The number of readers is at present so great that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works. In the reigns of William the Third, of Anne, and of George the First, even...
Seite 64 - I had lost somehow or other, left threepence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond in my blue smockfrock, and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written
Seite 150 - Howe's dining-room, where she generally sat and received her company ; and Salt, who believed Howe to be a bachelor, frequently recommended his own wife to him as a suitable match. During the last seven years of this gentleman's absence, he went every Sunday to St. James's church, and used to sit in Mr. Salt's seat, where he had a view of his wife, but could not easily be seen by her. After he returned home...