Once Upon a Time, Volumen2J. Murray, 1854 |
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... thought I was pitching my key low enough to suit our fops , and our courtiers , and our coffee - house loungers ; but to be relished by the rabble ! A pinch of snuff , if you please . " " If I could see the day , " replies Steele ...
... thought I was pitching my key low enough to suit our fops , and our courtiers , and our coffee - house loungers ; but to be relished by the rabble ! A pinch of snuff , if you please . " " If I could see the day , " replies Steele ...
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... thought that society had settled into order and security . These atrocities could not have existed without a most lamentable weakness in the government . Every thing was left to the narrow- minded local authorities . There was no ...
... thought that society had settled into order and security . These atrocities could not have existed without a most lamentable weakness in the government . Every thing was left to the narrow- minded local authorities . There was no ...
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... thoughts and experiences for the most part centred that have made the letters of Horace Walpole the best record of the manners of the upper ranks during half a century , when very great social changes were work- ing all around ...
... thoughts and experiences for the most part centred that have made the letters of Horace Walpole the best record of the manners of the upper ranks during half a century , when very great social changes were work- ing all around ...
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... thought that what I had seen of the world had hardened my heart ; but I find that it had formed my language , not extinguished my tenderness . " When he speaks of individuals we may occasionally think that the world had formed his ...
... thought that what I had seen of the world had hardened my heart ; but I find that it had formed my language , not extinguished my tenderness . " When he speaks of individuals we may occasionally think that the world had formed his ...
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... thought they might be talking business , I came away . ' However , amidst all these feuds the Italian Opera became firmly established in London ; and through that interchange of taste which fortunately neither the prejudices of ...
... thought they might be talking business , I came away . ' However , amidst all these feuds the Italian Opera became firmly established in London ; and through that interchange of taste which fortunately neither the prejudices of ...
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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...
Página 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.
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...