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... fortune . Poor William Octopus only minded his own business— and that not over well - and he seldom had , to use his own pathetic expression , " the p - p - price of a plate of meat . " No , my friends and friend- esses , there can be ...
... fortune . Poor William Octopus only minded his own business— and that not over well - and he seldom had , to use his own pathetic expression , " the p - p - price of a plate of meat . " No , my friends and friend- esses , there can be ...
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... fortune , are able to perform certain maternal functions by proxy , and are not particu- larly affected by the care of children , but though they have probably been concerned in the advent of their families , they scarcely come under ...
... fortune , are able to perform certain maternal functions by proxy , and are not particu- larly affected by the care of children , but though they have probably been concerned in the advent of their families , they scarcely come under ...
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... fortune to bestow content , and that men and women will complain at the very moment when destiny smiles upon them most benignantly , and felicity is staring them in the face . If ever there was a woman to be envied it was as- suredly ...
... fortune to bestow content , and that men and women will complain at the very moment when destiny smiles upon them most benignantly , and felicity is staring them in the face . If ever there was a woman to be envied it was as- suredly ...
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... fortunes , and the better off we are the more are we given to growl , -like Mr. Sable , the under- taker in Steele's play , who was paid for looking miserable , and the more money he got the more miserable he looked . I have met people ...
... fortunes , and the better off we are the more are we given to growl , -like Mr. Sable , the under- taker in Steele's play , who was paid for looking miserable , and the more money he got the more miserable he looked . I have met people ...
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... most likely not oblivious of the fact that a miser is the most wretched of men . Nor does remembrance of evil days seem a pleasant thing to cultivate . Fortune may smile , nay , broadly grin , and though 108 THE MISERIES OF MEMORY .
... most likely not oblivious of the fact that a miser is the most wretched of men . Nor does remembrance of evil days seem a pleasant thing to cultivate . Fortune may smile , nay , broadly grin , and though 108 THE MISERIES OF MEMORY .
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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.