 Small joints, I believe, they manage with a string, and larger are done at the tavern. I have some thoughts (with a profound gravity) of buying a jack, because I think a jack is some credit to a house.  Diary and Letters - Página 94de Fanny Burney - 1842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 páginas
...Small joints, I believe, they manage with a string, and larger are done at the tavern. I have some thoughts' (with a profound gravity) 'of buying a jack,...because I think a jack is some credit to a house.' " MR. THRALE : ' Well, but you'll have a spit, too ?' " DR. JOHNSON : ' No, Sir, no ; that would be superfluous... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 páginas
...Small joints, I believe, they manage with a string, and larger are done at the tavern. I have some thoughts' (with a profound gravity) 'of buying a jack,...because I think a jack is some credit to a house.' " MR. THRALE : ' Well, but you'll have a spit, too ?' " DR. JOHNSON : ' No, Sir, no ; that would be superfluous... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1904 - 596 páginas
...made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well-employed. buying a jack, because I think a jack is some credit to a house. Mr. T. — Well, but you'll have a spit, too ? Dr. J. — No, sir, no ; that would be superfluous ; for... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1911 - 332 páginas
...Small joints, I believe, they manage with a string, and larger are done at the tavern. I have some thoughts (with a profound gravity) of buying a jack,...because I think a jack is some credit to a house. Mr. T. — Well, but you'll have a spit, too? Dr. J. — No, sir, no; that would be superfluous; for we... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 páginas
...a jack is some credit to a house' 'Well,' remarked Mr. Thrale, 'but you'll have a spit, too?' 'No, sir, no; that would be superfluous; for we shall never...it; and if a jack is seen, a spit will be presumed !' This feature of the Johnsonian manner, which might almost be compared with Goldsmith's fondness... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 174 páginas
...JOHNSON. Do the best you can with a string, my dear. [To Boswe//.] I have for some time contemplated buying a jack because I think a jack is some credit to a house. [She goes out. Mr. BOSWELL. Well, but you '11 have a spit, too ? Dr. JOHNSON. No, sir, no; that would... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1842 - 604 páginas
...Small joints, 1 believe, they manage with a string, and larger are done at the tavern. I have some thoughts (with a profound gravity) of buying a jack,...because I think a jack is some credit to a house. Mr. T.— Well, but you'll have a spit, too ? Dr. J. — No, sir, no ; that would be superfluous ; for... | |
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