Salmagundi: Second Series, כרך 1

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עמוד 49 - Zounds, sir ! you are one of those, that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to do you service, and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse : you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have coursers for cousins, and gennets for germans.
עמוד 50 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak ; — such was the process \— And of the cannibals that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
עמוד 51 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
עמוד 47 - Flow'd ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce, That the wild deluge overtook the haste Ev'n of the hinds that watch'd it: men and beasts Were borne above the tops of trees, that grew On th' utmost margin of the water-mark.
עמוד 247 - I used generally, by some accident or other, to meet him once or twice a year in my walks ; and his appearance was at all times so indifferent as to challenge the first advances from an old acquaintance better dressed than himself. Accordingly, I was accustomed to stop and inquire how he got on in the World ; and as he made no secret of his poverty, his details often gave me an insight into the truth of the old saying, " that one half the world don't know how the other half lives...
עמוד 235 - ... rose buds, and had not a single ornament on her shoes. I met her frequently afterwards in public parties, and at social fire-sides, where an acquaintance commenced that was only interrupted by my retirement into the country. On such occasions, though surrounded by . women dressed in all the splendour of this age of wasteful prodigality, she always seemed to outdo them all/ and I had often the pleasure of hearing my judgment confirmed by persons who had refined their taste by the habitual contemplation...
עמוד 213 - ... in execution with the most complete success. The moment the shock had passed, the patient announced her recovery by a volley which caused the husband to retreat with great precipitation. Being apparently determined to make herself amends for lost time, she next attacked the sheriff with such vigour, that the worthy magistrate was fain to break up the court, and dismiss the bystanders rather unceremoniously. At this moment, methought she cast her eye on me with such a peculiar expression of hostility,...
עמוד 74 - Saturday morning, 1 1 o'clock. " Dear Mr, Evergreen, " I have got my beau again. I tried the prescription only once, and sure enough, as you predicted, he came back yesterday, and brought me a most beautiful nosegay. Poor Miss Pipkins looks as if she had lost her sweetheart, and I am so happy, you can't think. " Adieu, dear Mr. Evergreen, ".ETHELINDE. "PS — I intend to send you some bride cake to dream upon.
עמוד 211 - It seems she was an heiress, having brought him, as a marriage portion, a cow, a fealher-bed, and a black silk gown. On the strength of this dowry she ran. -into every kind of extravagance, buying two gowns a year, and changing the fashion of her dress every four or five years, to the great scandal of the neighbourhood, as well as the ruin of his fortune. Whenever he refused her money to supply these enormous caprices, she always threw the cow, the feather-bed, and the silk gown in his teeth, so...
עמוד 207 - ... rope about a yard in length, with which they lurked behind the corners of the streets, waiting the appearance of the young fellows, whom they were privileged to beat, until they got out of the way by running. This day of license was called, in the classical language of our early times, VROUWEN DAGH ; and it was held a disgrace for any young fellow to return these blows with any thing but a kiss, during the period of license. It is recorded that a smart blow was considered a peculiar proof of...

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