Once Upon a Time, כרך 2J. Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 33
עמוד 11
... common when he first came to London ; and how at length things were better ordered . But the change must in great part be imputed to the gradual improve- ment of the streets . In Gay's time there was no safety but within the posts ...
... common when he first came to London ; and how at length things were better ordered . But the change must in great part be imputed to the gradual improve- ment of the streets . In Gay's time there was no safety but within the posts ...
עמוד 18
... common acci- dents of the days of Anne . The carman was the terror of coaches from the first hour of their use ; and whether he was the regular city carman , or bore the honour of the dustman , brewer's man , or coal - heaver , he was ...
... common acci- dents of the days of Anne . The carman was the terror of coaches from the first hour of their use ; and whether he was the regular city carman , or bore the honour of the dustman , brewer's man , or coal - heaver , he was ...
עמוד 19
... common - shores descend ; Oft by the winds extinct the signal lies , Or smother'd in the glimmering socket dies Ere night has half roll'd round her ebon throne ; In the wide gulf the shatter'd coach o'erthrown Sinks with the snorting ...
... common - shores descend ; Oft by the winds extinct the signal lies , Or smother'd in the glimmering socket dies Ere night has half roll'd round her ebon throne ; In the wide gulf the shatter'd coach o'erthrown Sinks with the snorting ...
עמוד 22
... common occurrence in 1746 ; for in ' The Blood Bowl House , ' near Water Lane , Fleet Street , of which this is a repre- sentation , " there seldom passed a month without the commission of a murder . " + Fielding tells us that in 1753 ...
... common occurrence in 1746 ; for in ' The Blood Bowl House , ' near Water Lane , Fleet Street , of which this is a repre- sentation , " there seldom passed a month without the commission of a murder . " + Fielding tells us that in 1753 ...
עמוד 28
... common noises : and therefore we that love him devise to bring him in such as we may , now and then , for his exercise , to breathe him . He would grow resty else in his cage ; his virtue would rust without action . I 28 ONCE UPON A TIME .
... common noises : and therefore we that love him devise to bring him in such as we may , now and then , for his exercise , to breathe him . He would grow resty else in his cage ; his virtue would rust without action . I 28 ONCE UPON A TIME .
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist 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...