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... door , at which you know he is only giving a runaway knock . Like the boy in the fable , he has cried " Wolf ! " too often for those about him seriously to believe that the Destroyer is at hand ; though at the same time , being ...
... door , at which you know he is only giving a runaway knock . Like the boy in the fable , he has cried " Wolf ! " too often for those about him seriously to believe that the Destroyer is at hand ; though at the same time , being ...
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... door at a strange inn . " " Good God , " exclaimed my uncle , reddening like one of his own turkey - cocks , " is it pos- sible you could so forget the nature of my sudden attacks ! I am not likely to die in my bed ; but if I do , it ...
... door at a strange inn . " " Good God , " exclaimed my uncle , reddening like one of his own turkey - cocks , " is it pos- sible you could so forget the nature of my sudden attacks ! I am not likely to die in my bed ; but if I do , it ...
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... door . " A clever man , " said my uncle , when he was gone ; “ and no doubt understands my case , but as close as a fox . I only wish he would agree to my going suddenly : I should not die a bit the sooner for his giving me over ...
... door . " A clever man , " said my uncle , when he was gone ; “ and no doubt understands my case , but as close as a fox . I only wish he would agree to my going suddenly : I should not die a bit the sooner for his giving me over ...
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... doors and shutters , shining , bran - new , as if by common consent , or some clause in their leases , they had all been freshly painted within the last week . But probably they must thus be continually done in oil to keep out the wa ...
... doors and shutters , shining , bran - new , as if by common consent , or some clause in their leases , they had all been freshly painted within the last week . But probably they must thus be continually done in oil to keep out the wa ...
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... door off the hinges than on them , according to the serious poet's absurd simile . And all this gaping , and eye - watering , and drowsihed and discontent to be the work of a ridiculous Cockney , whom our evil fortune , personified in a ...
... door off the hinges than on them , according to the serious poet's absurd simile . And all this gaping , and eye - watering , and drowsihed and discontent to be the work of a ridiculous Cockney , whom our evil fortune , personified in a ...
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Page 349 - A PISCATORY ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling-place, Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace.
Page 389 - CONSUMPTION AND ITS CURE. A DOMESTIC EXTRAVAGANZA. " Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath
Page 231 - 1 am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; Not a creature objects to
Page 27 - in Rotterdam. Then here it goes, a bumper, — The toast it shall be mine, In Schiedam or in Sherry, Tokay, or Hock of Rhine,— It well deserves the brightest Where sunbeam ever swam, — " The girl I love in England," I drink at Rotterdam. TO MISS WILMOT, AT WOODLANDS, NEAR BECKENHAM, KENT. MY DEAR
Page 437 - " ' And the Geneva, Trim,' added my Uncle Toby, * which did us more good than all.' " — TRISTRAM SHANDY. CHAPTER I. TEMPERANCE is a Virtue. " No doubt of it," cries a little fat, plethoric gentleman, with a sanguine complexion, and a very short
Page 325 - A HORTICULTURAL ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " What sweet thoughts she thinks Of violets and pinks." L. HUNT. " Each flower of tender stalk whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping, unsustained, them she upstays.
Page 437 - I believe, an' please your Honor,' quoth the Corporal, * that if it had not been for the quantity of brandy we set fire to every night, and the claret and cinnamon with which I plied your Honor
Page 217 - My heart's Knapsack is always full of you ; My looks, they are quartered with you ; And when I bite off the top-end of a cartridge, Then I think that I give you a kiss. You alone are my Word of Command and orders, Yea, my Right-face, Left-face, Brown Tommy, and "wine, And at the word of command
Page 58 - sort, theres so menny farinacious impostors, and Johns and Marias, you don't know witch is him or her. Colon is full of Sites. The principle is the Cathedral, and by rites theres a Crane pearcht on the tiptop, like the Storks in Holland ; but I was out of luck, or he was off a feeding, for
Page 25 - plenty of travellers to do that with a pretended liberality : but I don't set up for a cosmopolite, which, to my mind, signifies being polite to every country except your own." " I have never heard the English accused," suggested your humble servant, " of wilful cruelty." " Not as to humankind, Frank : not as to humankind ; but