Once Upon a Time, כרך 2J. Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד 5
... amongst the Bedlam candidates if he propounded any more of his speculations ; and then , drawing himself up with greater dignity , re- joices the honest printer's heart by a memorable declaration : Come what may , we shall go on in ...
... amongst the Bedlam candidates if he propounded any more of his speculations ; and then , drawing himself up with greater dignity , re- joices the honest printer's heart by a memorable declaration : Come what may , we shall go on in ...
עמוד 13
... amongst the steady walkers who heeded not the spectacle : it was a thing of course . And so was the pillory in earlier times . Gay says nothing of the feelings of the passer - on ; he had only to take care of his clothes : " Where ...
... amongst the steady walkers who heeded not the spectacle : it was a thing of course . And so was the pillory in earlier times . Gay says nothing of the feelings of the passer - on ; he had only to take care of his clothes : " Where ...
עמוד 49
... amongst the middle classes ; and Dr. Johnson thought it not in the slightest de- gree indecorous to say to two young ladies who called upon him , " Come , you pretty fools , dine with Maxwell and me at the Mitre ; " to which the ladies ...
... amongst the middle classes ; and Dr. Johnson thought it not in the slightest de- gree indecorous to say to two young ladies who called upon him , " Come , you pretty fools , dine with Maxwell and me at the Mitre ; " to which the ladies ...
עמוד 52
... Amongst the royal and noble gamblers , swindlers par excellence sometimes found their way . There was a Sir William Burdett , whose name had the honour of being inscribed in the betting - room at White's as the subject of a wager that ...
... Amongst the royal and noble gamblers , swindlers par excellence sometimes found their way . There was a Sir William Burdett , whose name had the honour of being inscribed in the betting - room at White's as the subject of a wager that ...
עמוד 75
... amongst them since . " The Antiquarian Society then con- sisted of a few harmless and crotchety people , who wrote dull books which nobody read but them- selves . But the dull men in time came to under- stand the full value of ...
... amongst them since . " The Antiquarian Society then con- sisted of a few harmless and crotchety people , who wrote dull books which nobody read but them- selves . But the dull men in time came to under- stand the full value of ...
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Account amongst ancient appear Burney called century changed character Church classes common Court described doubt eggs England English face fashion Fcap four French George give gone Hall hand happy head heard History honour Horace Walpole hour hundred Illustrated JOHN King Lady laws letter lived London look Lord manners March matter Miss morning nature never night Notes once passed persons Plates poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds present Queen Remarks Royal says scene Second Edition seen shilling side society sometimes streets talk taste tell things Third Edition thought tion town Translated Travels turn Vols walk wall whole Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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עמוד 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
עמוד 136 - 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 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, 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 85 - 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 79 - 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 14 - 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 54 - ... 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 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
עמוד 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...