 | Charles Bowker Ash - 1831 - 648 páginas
...continues, "which generally succeeds more from br"ing happily addressed, than from its native poignancy. A jest, "calculated to spread at a gaming table, may...perfect "indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel boat." A comparison, perhaps, somewhat similar to the above, may be drawn with regard to a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 362 páginas
...relished at White's may lose all its flavour when delivered at the Cat and Bagpipes in St Giles's. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming table, may be received with a Perfe« neutrality of face, should it happen to drop m a mackerel boat. We lave all seen dunces triumph... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 páginas
...being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy. A jest calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackarel-boat. We have all seen dunces triumph in some companies, where men of real humour were disregarded,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 páginas
...being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy. A jest calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. We have all seen dunces triumph in some companies, where men of real humour were disregarded, by a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 páginas
...that hardened to the heat in front of the fire, he abruptly asked, — " What's this, laddie 1 — are ye baking for a wadding ?" " Just baking one of...could have perhaps succeeded in only a masons' barrack ; but^never there at least could joke have been more successful. As I had not yet ascertained that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 páginas
...relished at White's, may lose all its flavour when delivered at the Cat and Bagpipes in St Giles's. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming table, may be received with a perfect neutrality efface, should it happen to drop in a mackerel boat. We have all seen dunces triumph... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1855 - 560 páginas
...that hardened to the heat in front of the fire, he abruptly asked, — " What's this, laddie 1 — are ye baking for a wadding ?' " Just baking one of...perhaps succeeded in only a masons' barrack ; but never ttere at least could joke have been more successful. As I had not y^t ascertained that the Old Red... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 páginas
...being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy. A jest calculated to spread at a gamingtable, may be received with perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. We have all seen dunces triumph in some companies, where men of real humor were disregarded, by a general... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 páginas
...being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy. A jest calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackarel'ooat. We have all seen dunces triumph in some companies, where men of real humour were disregarded,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 550 páginas
...law that I should restrict myself for the future to two cakes per week. I at once agreed ; but the general barrack, to whose ears some of my master's...could joke have been more successful. As I had not y»,t ascertained that the Old Red Sandstone of the north of Scotland is richly fossiliferous, Conon-side... | |
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I replied ; ;' I don't think we'll need the other one before Saturday night." A roar of laughter from every corner of the barrack precluded reply ; and in the laughter, after an embarrassed pause, the poor man had the good sense to join. And during the... 
