Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 18
עמוד 44
... play , and went armed with syringes charged with stinking oil and with stick- ing plasters ; but it did not come to action . Gar- rick was impertinent , and the pretty men gave over their plot the moment they grew to be in the right ...
... play , and went armed with syringes charged with stinking oil and with stick- ing plasters ; but it did not come to action . Gar- rick was impertinent , and the pretty men gave over their plot the moment they grew to be in the right ...
עמוד 46
... play themselves . " The rage was so great to see this performance , that the House of Commons literally adjourned at three o'clock on purpose . " † C Vauxhall and Ranelagh figure in the descriptions of the ' Spectator ' and the ...
... play themselves . " The rage was so great to see this performance , that the House of Commons literally adjourned at three o'clock on purpose . " † C Vauxhall and Ranelagh figure in the descriptions of the ' Spectator ' and the ...
עמוד 51
... play at whist . You will naturally ask why they can't play at whist in London on those days as well as on the other five ? Indeed I can't tell you , except that it is so established a fashion to go out of town at the end of the week ...
... play at whist . You will naturally ask why they can't play at whist in London on those days as well as on the other five ? Indeed I can't tell you , except that it is so established a fashion to go out of town at the end of the week ...
עמוד 55
... play at brag till five in the morning , and then come back - I suppose to look for the bones of their husbands and families under the rubbish ? " * When the rulers of the nation on such an occasion , or any other occa- sion of public ...
... play at brag till five in the morning , and then come back - I suppose to look for the bones of their husbands and families under the rubbish ? " * When the rulers of the nation on such an occasion , or any other occa- sion of public ...
עמוד 79
... play is superior to all theirs . . . . . . You are so great a poet , Sir , that you have no occasion to labour anything but your plots . " * This is the na- tural result of Walpole being brought up in the French school of criticism ...
... play is superior to all theirs . . . . . . You are so great a poet , Sir , that you have no occasion to labour anything but your plots . " * This is the na- tural result of Walpole being brought up in the French school of criticism ...
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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?