The Ingoldsby Legends: Or Mirth and Marvels

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Worthington, 1890 - 406 páginas
 

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Página 55 - As Captain Macheath says, — and when one 's in debt, The sight 's as unpleasant a one as I know, Yet still not so bad after all, I suppose, As if, when one cannot discharge what one owes, They...
Página 335 - ... supplied, And managed to hold her up. — But when she ' comes to,' Oh ! 'tis shocking to view The sight which the corpse reveals ! Sir Thomas's body, It...
Página 134 - What make you here? — The gloom upon your youthful cheek speaks anything but joy;" Again I said, " What make you here, you little vulgar Boy ?" He frown'd, that little vulgar Boy, — he deem'd I meant to scoff— And when the little heart is big, a little
Página 206 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. "He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree. 'Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Página 400 - Were I but what my whole implies, And pass'd by chance across your portal : You'd cry, ' Can I believe my eyes ? I never saw so queer a mortal ! ' " For then my head would not be on, My arms their shoulders must abandon ; My very body would be gone, I should not have a leg to stand on.
Página 46 - I BELIEVE there are few But have heard of a Jew, Named Shylock, of Venice, as arrant a ' screw' In money transactions as ever you knew ; An exorbitant miser, who never yet lent A ducat at less than three hundred per cent., Insomuch that the veriest spendthrift in Venice, Who'd take no more care of his pounds than his pennies,.
Página 144 - Yield thee ! now yield thee, thou Smuggler Bill!" Smuggler Bill, he looks behind, And he sees a Dun horse come swift as the wind, And his nostrils smoke and his eyes they blaze Like a couple of lamps on a yellow post-chaise ! Every shoe he has got Appears red hot!
Página 335 - Twas e'en so — poor dear Knight! — with his 'specs' and his hat He'd gone poking his nose into this and to that ; When, close to the side Of the bank he espied An
Página 136 - I changed a shilling — (which in town the people call "a Bob ")— It was not so much for myself as for that vulgar child — And I said, " A pint of double X, and please to draw it mild!

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