Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, Volume 1R. Tyas, 1840 |
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... play- bills . She knows nearly all the actors and actresses , for she has seen most of them once ; and , moreover , has her especial favourites in tragedy , comedy , and opera : will , in the work - room , publish her decided preference ...
... play- bills . She knows nearly all the actors and actresses , for she has seen most of them once ; and , moreover , has her especial favourites in tragedy , comedy , and opera : will , in the work - room , publish her decided preference ...
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... played ; the virgin defending herself with only a poker from the advances of a strange unarmed man , generally believed to be a burglar , but by the lady herself suspected to be something consider- ably worse . We are convinced that we ...
... played ; the virgin defending herself with only a poker from the advances of a strange unarmed man , generally believed to be a burglar , but by the lady herself suspected to be something consider- ably worse . We are convinced that we ...
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... play , " Lie in a ten pound waistcoat . " A few fathoms of gold - chain , with diamonds ( if to be had ) for shirt- buttons , and as many rings on his fingers as a rattle - snake has in its tail , are , to the Diner - Out , almost ...
... play , " Lie in a ten pound waistcoat . " A few fathoms of gold - chain , with diamonds ( if to be had ) for shirt- buttons , and as many rings on his fingers as a rattle - snake has in its tail , are , to the Diner - Out , almost ...
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... play - bill yesterday . " " Yes , yes , I believe I did , " replied Grayson impatiently ; " my girls wish to see the new play at Covent Garden . " " You never bet , I think ? " inquired his friend . " Never ! " " Sometimes at whist ...
... play - bill yesterday . " " Yes , yes , I believe I did , " replied Grayson impatiently ; " my girls wish to see the new play at Covent Garden . " " You never bet , I think ? " inquired his friend . " Never ! " " Sometimes at whist ...
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... played my spare half - hour with little Jane , in the eight feet by twelve , called the garden , she looked earnestly in my face , and cried " You don't like it , Crissy . " She saw that the free - spirited boy had manacled himself ...
... played my spare half - hour with little Jane , in the eight feet by twelve , called the garden , she looked earnestly in my face , and cried " You don't like it , Crissy . " She saw that the free - spirited boy had manacled himself ...
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 290 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.