Time, Band 8

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Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax
Kelly, 1883
 

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Seite 297 - The china was beautiful, but Dr. Johnson justly observed it was too dear; for that he could have vessels of silver, of the same size, as cheap as what were here made of porcelain...
Seite 55 - In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
Seite 455 - Permit me, sire, further to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the city of London in particular...
Seite 149 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Seite 287 - A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoviug finger at, — O!
Seite 529 - In our assemblies at plays in London, you shall see such heaving and shoving, such itching and shouldering to sit by women ; such care for their garments, that they be not trod on ; such eyes to their laps, that no chips light in them ; such pillows to their backs, that they take no hurt ; such masking in their ears, I know not what ; such giving them pippins, to pass the time ; such playing at foot-saunt without cards ; such ticking, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them...
Seite 543 - If Miss Hessy keeps company with the eldest Hatton, and is still a politician, she is not the girl I took her for ; but to me she seems melancholy.
Seite 347 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Seite 570 - Sacrum. Why then, I perceive I have some Title here ; for I am one of them, though one of the worst.
Seite 526 - I will speak the less of it ; only giving you to understand that the whole mark which I shot at in that work was to show the reward of traitors in Catiline, and the necessary government of learned men in the person of Cicero, which foresees every danger that is likely to happen, and forestalls it continually ere it take effect.

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