Once Upon a Time, Volumen2J. Murray, 1854 |
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... writing penny paper after penny paper . A fine hand , gentlemen ! Are we to go back to our old ignorant days because of a red stamp ? We must go on improving . Look at my printing - office , and see if we are not improved . Why , Sir ...
... writing penny paper after penny paper . A fine hand , gentlemen ! Are we to go back to our old ignorant days because of a red stamp ? We must go on improving . Look at my printing - office , and see if we are not improved . Why , Sir ...
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... writer who is equally severe upon the " brutishness " of the " fourth estate . " He is speaking most seriously when he complains . that " the mob " attack well - dressed river passen- gers with all kinds of scurrilous , abusive , and ...
... writer who is equally severe upon the " brutishness " of the " fourth estate . " He is speaking most seriously when he complains . that " the mob " attack well - dressed river passen- gers with all kinds of scurrilous , abusive , and ...
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... writer of the fourth century , Libanius . Jonson designates this character by the name of ' Morose ; ' and his peculiarity is that he can bear no kind of noise , even that of ordinary talk . The plot turns upon this affectation ; for ...
... writer of the fourth century , Libanius . Jonson designates this character by the name of ' Morose ; ' and his peculiarity is that he can bear no kind of noise , even that of ordinary talk . The plot turns upon this affectation ; for ...
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... writing in 1597 , says , " Supper being ended , and music - books , according to custom , being brought to the table , the mistress of the house presented me with a part , earnestly requesting me to sing ; but when , after many ex ...
... writing in 1597 , says , " Supper being ended , and music - books , according to custom , being brought to the table , the mistress of the house presented me with a part , earnestly requesting me to sing ; but when , after many ex ...
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... writing , I am building - both works that will outlast the memory of battles and heroes ! * Horace Walpole to the Miss Berrys , March 5 , 1791 . Truly , I believe , the one will as much D 2 ( 35 ) HORACE WALPOLE'S WORLD OF FASHION.
... writing , I am building - both works that will outlast the memory of battles and heroes ! * Horace Walpole to the Miss Berrys , March 5 , 1791 . Truly , I believe , the one will as much D 2 ( 35 ) HORACE WALPOLE'S WORLD OF FASHION.
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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.
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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
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