Once Upon a Time, Volumen2J. Murray, 1854 |
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... made the shoe - black sometimes as necessary to the passenger who has hurried across the busy road , careless of mud so that he save his limbs , as the old neglect . The great thoroughfares cannot now be adequately swept ; and TRIVIA . 9.
... made the shoe - black sometimes as necessary to the passenger who has hurried across the busy road , careless of mud so that he save his limbs , as the old neglect . The great thoroughfares cannot now be adequately swept ; and TRIVIA . 9.
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... sometimes so narrow , that only one per- son could pass at a time ; and hence those contests for the wall that filled the streets with the vocifera- tions of anger , and the din of assaulting sticks , and sometimes the clash of naked ...
... sometimes so narrow , that only one per- son could pass at a time ; and hence those contests for the wall that filled the streets with the vocifera- tions of anger , and the din of assaulting sticks , and sometimes the clash of naked ...
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... sometimes gingerly along , with pattens and umbrella ( then exclusively used by women ) , and of courtesy he must yield the wall . The small - coal man , and the sweep , and the barber , took the wall , in assertion of their clothes ...
... sometimes gingerly along , with pattens and umbrella ( then exclusively used by women ) , and of courtesy he must yield the wall . The small - coal man , and the sweep , and the barber , took the wall , in assertion of their clothes ...
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... sometimes drives in this way , and sometimes rides as a postillion . But the hackney- coachman after the Restoration is a personage with a short whip and spurs ; he has been compelled to mount one of his horses , that he may more effec ...
... sometimes drives in this way , and sometimes rides as a postillion . But the hackney- coachman after the Restoration is a personage with a short whip and spurs ; he has been compelled to mount one of his horses , that he may more effec ...
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... sometimes in these street - fights and these porters ' quarrels . " There is an English writer who is equally severe upon the " brutishness " of the " fourth estate . " He is speaking most seriously when he complains . that " the mob ...
... sometimes in these street - fights and these porters ' quarrels . " There is an English writer who is equally severe upon the " brutishness " of the " fourth estate . " He is speaking most seriously when he complains . that " the mob ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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...