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... took my kind old friend's hand , how with it I held on to the old society of wits and men of the world . I could travel back for seven score years of time - have glimpses of Brummell , Selwyn , Chesterfield , and the men of pleasure ...
... took my kind old friend's hand , how with it I held on to the old society of wits and men of the world . I could travel back for seven score years of time - have glimpses of Brummell , Selwyn , Chesterfield , and the men of pleasure ...
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... took the apple - it was a cowardly fabrication of the serpent's . George Louis has been held up to execration as a murderous Bluebeard , whereas the Electoral Prince had no share in the transaction in which Philip of Königsmarck was ...
... took the apple - it was a cowardly fabrication of the serpent's . George Louis has been held up to execration as a murderous Bluebeard , whereas the Electoral Prince had no share in the transaction in which Philip of Königsmarck was ...
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... took that magnificent head of his out of the ugly reach of the axe . Oxford , the lazy and good - humored , had more courage , and awaited the storm at home . He and Mat Prior both had lodgings in the Tower , and both brought their ...
... took that magnificent head of his out of the ugly reach of the axe . Oxford , the lazy and good - humored , had more courage , and awaited the storm at home . He and Mat Prior both had lodgings in the Tower , and both brought their ...
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... took the loyalist side in the disputes which arose sixty years after . It is pleasant to find that a friend of ours , worthy Dick Steele , was for letting off the rebels with their lives . - for dear old Deutschland . The King God save ...
... took the loyalist side in the disputes which arose sixty years after . It is pleasant to find that a friend of ours , worthy Dick Steele , was for letting off the rebels with their lives . - for dear old Deutschland . The King God save ...
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... took him because we wanted him , because he served our turn ; we laughed at his uncouth German ways , and sneered at him . He took our loyalty for what it was worth ; laid hands on what money he could ; kept us assuredly from Popery and ...
... took him because we wanted him , because he served our turn ; we laughed at his uncouth German ways , and sneered at him . He took our loyalty for what it was worth ; laid hands on what money he could ; kept us assuredly from Popery and ...
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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.