The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: The adventures of Peregrine Pickle, pt. 1

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Stirling & Slade...[et. al.], 1820
 

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עמוד 45 - He had put on, in honour of his nuptials, his best coat of blue broadcloth, cut by a tailor of Ramsgate, and trimmed with five dozen of brass buttons, large and small; his breeches were of the same piece, fastened at the knees with large bunches of tape ; his waistcoat was of red plush, lapelled with green velvet, and garnished with vellum holes ; his boots bore an infinite resemblance, both in colour and shape, to a pair of leather buckets; his shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence...
עמוד 461 - PM Oct. x In the year of his age Threescore and nineteen. He kept his guns always loaded. And his tackle ready manned, And never showed his poop to the enemy, Except when he took her in tow ; But, His shot being expended, His match burnt out, And his upper works decayed, He was sunk By Death's superior weight of metal. Nevertheless, He will be weighed again At the Great Day, His rigging refitted. And his timbers repaired. And, with one broadside, Make his adversary Strike in his turn.
עמוד 425 - ... spray from your bowsprit, my good lad, and coil up your spirits. You must not let the toplifts of your heart give way, because you see me ready to go down at these years. Many a better man has foundered before he has made half my way ; thof I trust, by the mercy of God, I shall be sure in port in a very few glasses...
עמוד 264 - That he might not, however, disappoint or disgrace the entertainer, he applied his instruments to one of the birds; and, when he opened up the cavity, was assaulted by such an irruption of intolerable smells, that, without staying to disengage...
עמוד 426 - ... a tombstone. As for the motto, or what you call it, I leave that to you and Mr. Jolter, who are scholars ; but I do desire that it may not be engraved in the Greek or Latin lingos, and much less in the French, which I abominate, but in plain English, that when the angel comes to pipe all hands, at the great day, he may know that I am a British man, and speak to me in my mother-tongue. And now I have no more to say, but God in heaven have mercy upon my soul, and send you all fair weather, wheresoever...
עמוד 259 - ... of the ancients, which were somewhat different from these conveniences, and desired they would have the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr Pallet would place themselves upright at the ends, that they might have the pleasure of serving those that lay along. This disposition, of which the strangers had no previous idea, disconcerted and perplexed them in a most ridiculous manner...
עמוד 79 - Perry with a light in his hand, kindled his firework with a match, and began to bellow like a bull. The boy, as it was concerted, looking behind him, screamed aloud and dropped the light, which was extinguished in the fall ; when Trunnion, alarmed at his nephew's consternation, exclaimed, 'Zounds ! what's the matter?' And turning about to see the cause of his dismay, beheld a hideous phantom vomiting blue flame, which aggravated the horrors of its aspect. He was instantly seized with an agony of...
עמוד 373 - my muse were blessed with an occasion to emulate that glorious testimony on the trophy in Cyprus, erected by Cimon, for two great victories gained on the same day over the Persians by sea and land; in which it is very remarkable, that the greatness of the occasion has raised the manner of expression above the usual simplicity and modesty of all other ancient inscriptions.
עמוד 246 - Paris a week or two after his affairs were settled, in hope of finding some agreeable companion disposed for the same journey ; and, in order to refresh his memory, made a second circuit round all the places in that capital where any curious production of art is to be seen. In the course of this second examination, he chanced to enter the Palais Royal, just as two gentlemen alighted from a fiacre at the gate, and all three being admitted at the same time, he soon perceived that the strangers were...

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