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... gentlemen came out at Lord Mar's summons , mounted the white cockade , that has been a flower of sad poetry ever ... gentleman not concerned , who couple of soldiers almost flogged to told Sinclair , that he was in a house death for ...
... gentlemen came out at Lord Mar's summons , mounted the white cockade , that has been a flower of sad poetry ever ... gentleman not concerned , who couple of soldiers almost flogged to told Sinclair , that he was in a house death for ...
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... gentleman ! How much greater , better , you are than the King Mr. Secretary kneels to ! 66 You can have foreign testimony about old - world London , if you like ; and my before - quoted friend , Charles Louis , Baron de Pöllnitz , will ...
... gentleman ! How much greater , better , you are than the King Mr. Secretary kneels to ! 66 You can have foreign testimony about old - world London , if you like ; and my before - quoted friend , Charles Louis , Baron de Pöllnitz , will ...
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... Gentlemen who wished to entertain their female friends constantly sent I fancy it was a merrier England , for a band . When Beau Fielding , a that of our ancestors , than the island mighty fine gentleman , was courting which we inhabit ...
... Gentlemen who wished to entertain their female friends constantly sent I fancy it was a merrier England , for a band . When Beau Fielding , a that of our ancestors , than the island mighty fine gentleman , was courting which we inhabit ...
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... gentleman on the road near Stone , in Staffordshire , who died in two days , for which the gentleman was imprisoned . " " A poor man was found hanging in a gentleman's stables at Bungay , in Norfolk , by a person who cut him down , and ...
... gentleman on the road near Stone , in Staffordshire , who died in two days , for which the gentleman was imprisoned . " " A poor man was found hanging in a gentleman's stables at Bungay , in Norfolk , by a person who cut him down , and ...
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... gentlemen ! I fancy that peculiar product of the past , the fine gentleman , has al- most vanished from off the face of the earth , and is disappearing like the beaver or the Red Indian . We can't have fine gentlemen any more , be ...
... gentlemen ! I fancy that peculiar product of the past , the fine gentleman , has al- most vanished from off the face of the earth , and is disappearing like the beaver or the Red Indian . We can't have fine gentlemen any more , be ...
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Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The history of Samuel Titmarsh, Volume 1 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização completa - 1849 |
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Página 48 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 149 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 82 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 194 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Página 111 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 149 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Página 84 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
Página 142 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Página 109 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 188 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.