The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and WaggishD. Appleton, 1859 - 262 strán (strany) |
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Strana 6
... lady to say whom he liked best of all the actors . Notwithstanding his usual bluntness , he evaded the question for some time , but being importuned for an answer , he at length growled , " Well , madam , if you will have a reply , I ...
... lady to say whom he liked best of all the actors . Notwithstanding his usual bluntness , he evaded the question for some time , but being importuned for an answer , he at length growled , " Well , madam , if you will have a reply , I ...
Strana 21
... ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently de- tect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat perilous experiment . Both may be known by their assuming a more gaudy ...
... ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently de- tect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat perilous experiment . Both may be known by their assuming a more gaudy ...
Strana 34
... lady , who has attained some celebrity in literature . Describing a storm to which she was exposed , when crossing in the steamboat from Dover to Calais , her ladyship says , " In spite of the most earnest solicitations to the contrary ...
... lady , who has attained some celebrity in literature . Describing a storm to which she was exposed , when crossing in the steamboat from Dover to Calais , her ladyship says , " In spite of the most earnest solicitations to the contrary ...
Strana 37
... lady to her butler.— “ Placing a cask of strong beer at the side of it , " was the reply . BENEFICENCE — may exist without benevolence . Aris- ing from a sense of duty , not from sympathy or compassion , it may be a charity of the hand ...
... lady to her butler.— “ Placing a cask of strong beer at the side of it , " was the reply . BENEFICENCE — may exist without benevolence . Aris- ing from a sense of duty , not from sympathy or compassion , it may be a charity of the hand ...
Strana 43
... ladies , and the natural butt and target of wit . It is easy to talk of carnivorous animals and beasts of prey ; but does such a man who lays waste a whole party of civilized beings by prosing , reflect upon the joy he spoils , and the ...
... ladies , and the natural butt and target of wit . It is easy to talk of carnivorous animals and beasts of prey ; but does such a man who lays waste a whole party of civilized beings by prosing , reflect upon the joy he spoils , and the ...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Zväzok 2 Horace Smith Úplné zobrazenie - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Zväzok 2 Horace Smith Úplné zobrazenie - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Zväzok 2 Horace Smith Úplné zobrazenie - 1836 |
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Strana 32 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 165 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed?
Strana 239 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Strana 129 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Strana 34 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Strana 242 - If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Strana 245 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Strana 129 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Strana 245 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Strana 112 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy ! S.