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... asked meekly , almost deferentially , for the pro- prietor , to whom he gave , apologetically , an ex- tensive order . He was not nearly so imposing- that is , dignified - as I was ; yet he was a duke of a most ducal line , having in ...
... asked meekly , almost deferentially , for the pro- prietor , to whom he gave , apologetically , an ex- tensive order . He was not nearly so imposing- that is , dignified - as I was ; yet he was a duke of a most ducal line , having in ...
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... asked him what had brought him into the city . Whereupon Billy made answer interrogatively thus : - " D - d - did you ever hear t - t - tell of Jemmy Wood , of G— g - gloucester ? " " Wood the miser , 10 THE SWEETS OF SCANDAL.
... asked him what had brought him into the city . Whereupon Billy made answer interrogatively thus : - " D - d - did you ever hear t - t - tell of Jemmy Wood , of G— g - gloucester ? " " Wood the miser , 10 THE SWEETS OF SCANDAL.
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... asking your permission . " " Of a certainty , " I replied , 66 but no one has a right to make his nose an in- strument of torture to his fellow - creatures . " He seemed to be of a different opinion , so there the conversation dropped ...
... asking your permission . " " Of a certainty , " I replied , 66 but no one has a right to make his nose an in- strument of torture to his fellow - creatures . " He seemed to be of a different opinion , so there the conversation dropped ...
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... asking a moody Cockney in Oxford Street the way to Tottenham Court Road . " Pardon , Monsieur ! " exclaims the cour- teous Gaul , with profuse gesticulation , " can you tell me the way to Tottenham Court Road ? " " No , but I can punch ...
... asking a moody Cockney in Oxford Street the way to Tottenham Court Road . " Pardon , Monsieur ! " exclaims the cour- teous Gaul , with profuse gesticulation , " can you tell me the way to Tottenham Court Road ? " " No , but I can punch ...
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... asking a man to be hanged cheer- fully because there is no chance of a reprieve . The strong probability is that all the proverbs eulogistic of industry were artfully concocted by astute individuals to excite other people to do their ...
... asking a man to be hanged cheer- fully because there is no chance of a reprieve . The strong probability is that all the proverbs eulogistic of industry were artfully concocted by astute individuals to excite other people to do their ...
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Página 45 - Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist.
Página 186 - Smoking has gone out. To be sure, it is a shocking thing, blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us. Yet I cannot account, why a thing which requires so little exertion, and yet preserves the mind from total vacuity, should have gone out.
Página 200 - Give me the merchants of the Indian mines, That trade in metal of the purest mould; The wealthy Moor, that in the eastern rocks Without control can pick his "riches up, And in his house heap pearl like...
Página 200 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Página 200 - May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity : This is the ware wherein consists my wealth ; And thus, methinks, should men of judgment frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth increaseth, so inclose Infinite riches in a little room.
Página 166 - Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
Página 302 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so ; A gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe ; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. XLII. Lambro presented, and one instant more Had stopp'd this Canto, and Don Juan's breath, When Haidee threw herself her boy before ; Stern as her sire :
Página 384 - ... bringest an assuaging balm ; eloquent opium ! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath ; and to the guilty man for one night...
Página 185 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay : Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Página 128 - Be not fond, To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood That will be thawed from the true quality With that which melteth fools, — I mean sweet words.