Free lance, tiltings in many lists, by C. J. Dunphie and A. King |
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... probably have acknow- ledged the imperious need of nativity as a pass- port to Society , good , bad , or indifferent . Indeed , without being born , you might be proposed and seconded , but it is nearly certain that you would not ...
... probably have acknow- ledged the imperious need of nativity as a pass- port to Society , good , bad , or indifferent . Indeed , without being born , you might be proposed and seconded , but it is nearly certain that you would not ...
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... probably do not absolutely desire a ticket - of - leave . It is even doubtful whether any one would con- tinue the race , if he or she could see at the start how hard the ground would be in some places , how swift the going in another ...
... probably do not absolutely desire a ticket - of - leave . It is even doubtful whether any one would con- tinue the race , if he or she could see at the start how hard the ground would be in some places , how swift the going in another ...
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... probably never been found upon earth elsewhere than in London since the building of the Tower of Babel . Some maniac who died years ago - alas ! that he should have ever lived - left a leg of mutton and trimmings ( so the Cocknies are ...
... probably never been found upon earth elsewhere than in London since the building of the Tower of Babel . Some maniac who died years ago - alas ! that he should have ever lived - left a leg of mutton and trimmings ( so the Cocknies are ...
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... . The guar- dians of the night no longer cry out the hour . If you were to ask a Bobby to sing forth the time o'night under your window he would probably re- 66 gard you as a lunatic , and treat you THE LONDON ROW . 29.
... . The guar- dians of the night no longer cry out the hour . If you were to ask a Bobby to sing forth the time o'night under your window he would probably re- 66 gard you as a lunatic , and treat you THE LONDON ROW . 29.
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... probably derive pleasure from the passing of his wet fingers over a pane of glass , the rolling of a wheel upon a dry axle , or the turning of a door upon a rusty hinge . Our fathers were free from the fell persecution of street music ...
... probably derive pleasure from the passing of his wet fingers over a pane of glass , the rolling of a wheel upon a dry axle , or the turning of a door upon a rusty hinge . Our fathers were free from the fell persecution of street music ...
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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.