| 1853 - 582 páginas
...milestones) — " It is an unconstitutional tax, as they are a race that cannot meet to remonstrate." Denon told an anecdote of a man who, having been asked repeatedly to dinner by a person whom he knew to bo but a shabby Amphitryon, went at last, and found the dinner so meagre and bad that he did not get... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1853 - 390 páginas
...Maine de Biron and Denon, Luttrel, and Concannon. Abundance of noise and Irish stories from Lottin ; some of them very good. A man asked another to come...were removing, the host said, " Well, now the ice js broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine with you some day." — " Most willingly." "Name your... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 814 páginas
...rather odd it should be exactly the same dinner I had at home for myself — barring the beef.' .... Denon told an anecdote of a man who, having been asked...Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine with you someday.' ' Most willingly.' ' Name your day, then.' ' Aujourd'hui, par exemple,'... | |
| 1853 - 796 páginas
...know you won't betray me." "The print on which Paddy's devotion was lavished, was an old engraving of Marshal Saxe, or some such ancient.'' " Denon told...that he did not get a bit to eat. When the dishes wire removing, the host said, " Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine with... | |
| 1853 - 1074 páginas
...' No, but there is a bellyache in every glass of it.' A man having been asked to dinner repeatedly by a person whom he knew to be but a shabby Amphitryon,...Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine some day.' ' Most willingly.' ' Name your day, then.' • Ajuur'd h'ri, par exemple,' answered... | |
| 1853 - 528 páginas
...' No, but there is a bellyache in every glass of it.' A man having been asked to dinner repeatedly by a person whom he knew to be but a shabby Amphitryon, went at last, and found the V dinner so meagre and bad, that he did not get a bit to eat. When the dishes were removing, the host... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 páginas
...milestones) — " Itisan unconstitutional tax, as they are a race that cannot meet to remonstrate. Denon told an anecdote of a man who, having been asked repeatedly todinner by a person whom he knew to be but a shabby Amphitryon, went at last, and found the dinner... | |
| 1857 - 514 páginas
...' No, but there is a bellyache in every glass of it.' A man having been asked to dinner repeatedly by a person whom he knew to be but a shabby Amphitryon,...Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine some day.' ' Most willingly." ' Name your day, then.' • Ajour'd hut, par exemple,' answered... | |
| Thomas Moore, William Jerdan - 1875 - 328 páginas
...there, and tell me whether that's the real thing," pointing to a soi-disant portrait of Bonaparte, which was neither more nor less than a print of Marshal...Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine with you some day." " Most willingly." " Name your day, then." " Aujourd'hui, par exemple,"... | |
| Thomas Moore, William Jerdan - 1875 - 316 páginas
...there, and tell me whether that 's the real thing." pointing to a soi-disant portrait of Bonaparte, which was neither more nor less than a print of Marshal...Well, now the ice is broken, I suppose you will ask me to dine with you some day." " Most willingly." " Name your day, then." " Aujourd'hui, par exemple^... | |
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