London Society, Band 5;Band 7James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1865 |
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... Snipe advises them . ' ' Just half a glass more , Tom- kins . ' ' No , not a drop , Baby , or hanged if I don't tell Snipe . If you don't know how to take care of yourself I must look after you . Come , pass the fruity at once , you ...
... Snipe advises them . ' ' Just half a glass more , Tom- kins . ' ' No , not a drop , Baby , or hanged if I don't tell Snipe . If you don't know how to take care of yourself I must look after you . Come , pass the fruity at once , you ...
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... Snipe , with an air of supreme patronage . ' Uncommon , ' said Smith , whose chief ambition , lazy fellow as he was , was to earn his dark blue . Uncommon , Snipe . Take some beer . ' My Baby , ' said Snipe , reproach- fully , you must ...
... Snipe , with an air of supreme patronage . ' Uncommon , ' said Smith , whose chief ambition , lazy fellow as he was , was to earn his dark blue . Uncommon , Snipe . Take some beer . ' My Baby , ' said Snipe , reproach- fully , you must ...
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... Snipe's feelings . Talk about cheek , if ever man required cheek , Snipe did then . Tell me about people being shut up with madmen , boa - constrictors , and bowie - knives in the same com- partment , I say their feelings can be nothing ...
... Snipe's feelings . Talk about cheek , if ever man required cheek , Snipe did then . Tell me about people being shut up with madmen , boa - constrictors , and bowie - knives in the same com- partment , I say their feelings can be nothing ...
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... Snipe ! ' A new pair of patent - leather boots which he could not force on , had made him too late for the bus . As he was coming up through the Close , some butcher's boy made a remark about his being sixpennorth of ha'pence too short ...
... Snipe ! ' A new pair of patent - leather boots which he could not force on , had made him too late for the bus . As he was coming up through the Close , some butcher's boy made a remark about his being sixpennorth of ha'pence too short ...
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... Snipe for not rising to allow her to pass , grunted indignantly , and placed the dog on the floor . What should the little beast do but make an incursion under the seat to where Snipe was seated . After having sniffed suspiciously round ...
... Snipe for not rising to allow her to pass , grunted indignantly , and placed the dog on the floor . What should the little beast do but make an incursion under the seat to where Snipe was seated . After having sniffed suspiciously round ...
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Seite 237 - That indisposition, unfitness, or contrariety of mind, arising from a cause in nature unchangeable, hindering, and ever likely to hinder, the main benefits of conjugal society, which are solace and peace; is a greater reason of divorce than natural frigidity, especially if there be no children and that there be mutual consent.
Seite 274 - ... tis that must make us a nation in India;— without that we are but as a great number of interlopers, united by his Majesty's royal charter, fit only to trade where nobody of power thinks it their interest to prevent us;— and upon this account it is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices which we have seen, write ten paragraphs concerning their government, their civil and military policy, warfare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning trade...
Seite 260 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
Seite 258 - No!" If he ever sets foot in the city Among the stockbrokers and Jews, If he has not a heart full of pity, If he don't stand six feet in his shoes, If his lips are not redder than roses, If his hands are not whiter than snow, If he has not the model of noses, — • My own Araminta, say "No!
Seite 260 - And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom lath; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through...
Seite 274 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Seite 257 - As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many the cunning sportsman tried, Many he flung with a frown aside; A minstrel's harp, and a miser's chest, A hermit's cowl, and a baron's crest, Jewels of lustre, robes of price, Tomes of heresy, loaded dice, And golden cups of the brightest wine That ever was pressed from the Burgundy vine. There was a perfume of sulphur and nitre As he came at last to a bishop's mitre!
Seite 254 - I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavour, A wreath — a rank — a throne — a grave,— The world goes round for ever ; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.
Seite 258 - If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself 'Thompson' or 'Skinner', My own Araminta, say 'No!
Seite 221 - Metamorphoses, or some other fabulous writer. Between the pauses or acts of this serious representation, he interwove a comic fable, consisting chiefly of the courtship of Harlequin and Columbine, with a variety of surprising adventures and tricks, which were produced by the magic wand of Harlequin; such as the sudden transformation of palaces and temples to huts and cottages; of men and women into wheel-barrows and joint-stools; of trees turned to houses; colonnades to beds of tulips; and mechanic...