 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 322 Seiten
...awful attention in the audience : it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dan. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Isn't that odd, though... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1816 - 538 Seiten
...awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." It must be owned, however, that the landscapes of Mrs Radcliffe are eminently beautiful, and their... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 Seiten
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c.of Scotland, with the Contemplative Angler,"... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1821 - 428 Seiten
...awful - attention in the audience — it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dangle. But pray, are the centinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is 'nt that odd though... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 Seiten
...have not the merit which attaches to Mr. Puff's contrivances, which, it may be remembered, " saved a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere." And now for " a brief description of the cities, citadels, &c. of Scotland, with the Contemplative... | |
 | Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1825 - 78 Seiten
...beget an awful attention in the audience — it also marks the time, which is four in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dang. But, pray, are the sentinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is not that odd though... | |
 | 1827 - 378 Seiten
...awful attention in the audience — it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. Dan. But, pray, are the centinela to be asleep ? Puff'. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Is'nt that odd though,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 Seiten
...awful attention in the audience : it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. DIIHQ. But pray, are the sentinels to be asleep ? Puff. Fast as watchmen. Sneer. Isn't that odd though... | |
 | miss Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1840 - 968 Seiten
...CHAPTER I. I open with a clock 'striking ; it marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the hemisphere. The Critic. " NOTWITHSTANDING it is a fatal maxim among women ' to please the eye, though... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...clock strike four in a morning scene, ' to beget an awful attention' in the audience, and to ' save ore, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn, nor murmur ; other gi — are a felicitous combination of humour and satire. The scene in which Sneer mortifies the vanity... | |
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 
