The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Band 8Joseph Shackell, 1832 |
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... poor persecuted Covenanters , turb its glassy surface , reflectins or whigs , as they were termed in deri- clear waters the grand and picturesque sion , were hunted and shot down like scenery by which it is surrounded . The of following ...
... poor persecuted Covenanters , turb its glassy surface , reflectins or whigs , as they were termed in deri- clear waters the grand and picturesque sion , were hunted and shot down like scenery by which it is surrounded . The of following ...
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... poor mother . She is ill , sir - in want of neces- saries - and I wretched in knowing this to be the truth . I have even , sir , " con- tinued she , in a voice hardly articulate with weeping , " to combat my affec- tion and ...
... poor mother . She is ill , sir - in want of neces- saries - and I wretched in knowing this to be the truth . I have even , sir , " con- tinued she , in a voice hardly articulate with weeping , " to combat my affec- tion and ...
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... poor dear fellow safe to school , At Dr. Smith's , in Little Chelsea ? " Heaven send he flog the little fool ! From Lady Snooks : " Dear Sir , you know , You promised me last week a Rebus , Or something smart and apropos For my new ...
... poor dear fellow safe to school , At Dr. Smith's , in Little Chelsea ? " Heaven send he flog the little fool ! From Lady Snooks : " Dear Sir , you know , You promised me last week a Rebus , Or something smart and apropos For my new ...
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... poor - rate , whilst I am paying you for porterage . I will not go on in this way . Jon - Well ! we will consider of it next Christmass , when the partners in our firm meet to talk over the con- cern . ( John remains patient for another ...
... poor - rate , whilst I am paying you for porterage . I will not go on in this way . Jon - Well ! we will consider of it next Christmass , when the partners in our firm meet to talk over the con- cern . ( John remains patient for another ...
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... POOR POET . - A poor poet had placed a tragedy in his hands one night behind the scenes , whilst he was still dressed for the character he had performed . Quin put the manu- script into his pocket and forgot it .-- The bard having ...
... POOR POET . - A poor poet had placed a tragedy in his hands one night behind the scenes , whilst he was still dressed for the character he had performed . Quin put the manu- script into his pocket and forgot it .-- The bard having ...
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Seite 269 - But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Seite 233 - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
Seite 107 - And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me : neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem : neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Seite 234 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Seite 223 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Seite 259 - Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Seite 269 - Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Seite 106 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Seite 80 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Seite 260 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.