Once Upon a Time, Volumen1John Murray, 1854 |
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... seen , somewhere about the year 1820 , the last of the ancient shoe - blacks . One would think that he deemed himself dedicated to his pro- fession by Nature , for he was a Negro . At the earliest dawn he crept forth from his ...
... seen , somewhere about the year 1820 , the last of the ancient shoe - blacks . One would think that he deemed himself dedicated to his pro- fession by Nature , for he was a Negro . At the earliest dawn he crept forth from his ...
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... seen the Water - Poet denounced ; and the highways of London were not quite suited to the walker . Shoes such as those are ridiculed by Stubbes as " uneasy to go in ; " and he adds , " they exaggerate a moun- tain of mire , and gather a ...
... seen the Water - Poet denounced ; and the highways of London were not quite suited to the walker . Shoes such as those are ridiculed by Stubbes as " uneasy to go in ; " and he adds , " they exaggerate a moun- tain of mire , and gather a ...
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... seen a beau , in some ill - fated hour , When o'er the stones chok'd kennels swell the shower , In gilded chariot loll ; he with disdain Views spatter'd passengers all drench'd in rain . With mud filled high , the rumbling cart draws ...
... seen a beau , in some ill - fated hour , When o'er the stones chok'd kennels swell the shower , In gilded chariot loll ; he with disdain Views spatter'd passengers all drench'd in rain . With mud filled high , the rumbling cart draws ...
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... seen flambeaux in London . The intelligent antiquary -not he who discovers nothing of antiquity but what is buried in the earth or described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some of our ...
... seen flambeaux in London . The intelligent antiquary -not he who discovers nothing of antiquity but what is buried in the earth or described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some of our ...
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... seen . * Lastly came the time when the old man was laid up for weeks with the gout , and the building and curiosity - buying was at an end ; and after the Duchess of York had come to see his house in 1793 , when he put a carpet on the ...
... seen . * Lastly came the time when the old man was laid up for weeks with the gout , and the building and curiosity - buying was at an end ; and after the Duchess of York had come to see his house in 1793 , when he put a carpet on the ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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...
Página 188 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 145 - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better skill'd the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, And, skill'd at whist, devotes the night to play : Then, while such honours bloom around his head,...
Página 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...
Página 59 - Friday ; the crowd was so great that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs ; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there.
Página 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...
Página 143 - Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy Bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect. Paid by the parish for attendance here, He wears contempt upon his sapient sneer; In haste he seeks the bed where Misery lies, Impatience mark'd in his averted eyes; And, some habitual queries hurried o'er, Without reply, he rushes on the door: His drooping patient, long inured to pain, And long unheeded, knows remonstrance vain ; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of man ; and silent sinks into the grave. But...
Página 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?
Página 59 - I went to hear it — for it is not an apparition, but an audition — we set out from the opera, changed our clothes at Northumberland House, the Duke of York, Lady Northumberland, Lady Mary Coke, Lord Hertford and I, all in one...
Página 13 - Like the sweet ballad, this amusing lay Too long detains the walker on his way ; While he attends, new dangers round him throng ; The busy city asks instructive song.