Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 21
עמוד 29
... Master Morose's window ; till he was sent crying away , with his head made a most bleeding spectacle to the multitude . And , another time , a fencer marching to his prize had his drum most tragically run through , for taking that ...
... Master Morose's window ; till he was sent crying away , with his head made a most bleeding spectacle to the multitude . And , another time , a fencer marching to his prize had his drum most tragically run through , for taking that ...
עמוד 45
... master of Drury Lane , has omitted nothing to support them , as they supported his house . About ten days ago he let into the pit great numbers of Bear Garden bruisers ( that is the term ) , to knock down every- body that hissed . The ...
... master of Drury Lane , has omitted nothing to support them , as they supported his house . About ten days ago he let into the pit great numbers of Bear Garden bruisers ( that is the term ) , to knock down every- body that hissed . The ...
עמוד 79
... master of nature , Shakspeare , was the model I copied . Let me ask if his trage- dies of ' Hamlet ' and ' Julius Cæsar ' would not lose * Horace Walpole to Robert Jephson , Esq . , October 17 , 1777 . a considerable share of their ...
... master of nature , Shakspeare , was the model I copied . Let me ask if his trage- dies of ' Hamlet ' and ' Julius Cæsar ' would not lose * Horace Walpole to Robert Jephson , Esq . , October 17 , 1777 . a considerable share of their ...
עמוד 82
... master ; and perhaps the sole merit that may be found in my writings is owing to my having studied yours . ' The adroit Frenchman must have laughed a little at this compliment . Walpole was thinking of his letters , of which the world ...
... master ; and perhaps the sole merit that may be found in my writings is owing to my having studied yours . ' The adroit Frenchman must have laughed a little at this compliment . Walpole was thinking of his letters , of which the world ...
עמוד 90
... master , and coming to London , and of his other extravagances . He had depended on the impulse of the talents he felt for making impres- sion , and lifting him to wealth , honours , and fame . I have already said that I should have ...
... master , and coming to London , and of his other extravagances . He had depended on the impulse of the talents he felt for making impres- sion , and lifting him to wealth , honours , and fame . I have already said that I should have ...
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עמוד 20 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
עמוד 161 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
עמוד 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
עמוד 141 - Rapine and Wrong and Fear usurp'd her place, And a bold, artful, surly, savage race; Who, only skill'd to take the finny tribe, The yearly dinner, or septennial bribe...
עמוד 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
עמוד 91 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
עמוד 85 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
עמוד 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
עמוד 27 - VAUX'S (WSW) Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum ; being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art preserved there. With 300 Woodcuts. Post Svo.
עמוד 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?