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... cause enough for Joe to cherish spite in return . In the play of Cat- aline's Conspiracy , acted about this time , a great number of senators of Rome were wanted , and Hart made Joe one , although his salary , being fifty shillings a ...
... cause enough for Joe to cherish spite in return . In the play of Cat- aline's Conspiracy , acted about this time , a great number of senators of Rome were wanted , and Hart made Joe one , although his salary , being fifty shillings a ...
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... cause of his dismissal , and resolved to be revenged ; accordingly , as he was one day walking in the street , he met a parson of an odd , simple appearance , whom he accosted in a friendly manner , as if they had been formerly ...
... cause of his dismissal , and resolved to be revenged ; accordingly , as he was one day walking in the street , he met a parson of an odd , simple appearance , whom he accosted in a friendly manner , as if they had been formerly ...
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... let it be your earnest endeavor to find out the cause , and by your ghostly ` exhorta- tions , to remove the effects , -such weeds must not be permitted to grow in a vineyard where 3 Kuk Wiggin, the man who ran away from his name,
... let it be your earnest endeavor to find out the cause , and by your ghostly ` exhorta- tions , to remove the effects , -such weeds must not be permitted to grow in a vineyard where 3 Kuk Wiggin, the man who ran away from his name,
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... caused a general murmur of delight ; a nobleman present , who was not illustrious for the brilliancy of his ideas , exclaimed , " What a pity it is , Quin , my boy , that a clev- er fellow like you should be a player ! " Quin flashed ...
... caused a general murmur of delight ; a nobleman present , who was not illustrious for the brilliancy of his ideas , exclaimed , " What a pity it is , Quin , my boy , that a clev- er fellow like you should be a player ! " Quin flashed ...
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... cause to fear that long before she threw herself publicly away , her conduct had not been without some secret stain ... caused a universal laugh , in which the King and Queen heartily joined . And she was next day honored with a message ...
... cause to fear that long before she threw herself publicly away , her conduct had not been without some secret stain ... caused a universal laugh , in which the King and Queen heartily joined . And she was next day honored with a message ...
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Page 94 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Page 93 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which on minds of a different cast makes no extraordinary impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight....
Page 93 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 93 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 93 - I own myself so little a Presbyterian, that I approve of set times and seasons of more than ordinary acts of devotion, for breaking in on that habituated routine of life and thought, which is so apt to reduce our existence to a kind of instinct, or even sometimes, and with some minds, to a state very little superior to mere machinery. This day ; the first Sunday of May ; a breezy...
Page 278 - Hear, Father ! hear and aid ! If I have loved too well, if I have shed, In my vain fondness, o'er a mortal head Gifts, on Thy shrine, my God, more fitly laid : " If I have sought to live But in one light, and made a mortal eye The lonely star of my idolatry, — Thou, that art Love ! oh, pity and forgive!
Page 290 - ... however be recorded, that though I called in the hope of being asked, it was my fixed determination not to avail myself of so protracted a piece of politeness. No : my triumph would have been to have annihilated them with an engagement made in September, payable three months after date. With these feelings, I gave an agitated knock — they were stoning the plums, and did not immediately attend. I rung — how unlike a...
Page 168 - Dicky toss'd and turn'd ; And he mutter'd while half a-sleep, The stone is large and round , and the halter tight and sound, And the well thirty fathom deep. The gloomy dome of St. Paul's struck three, The morning began to blink, And Gossip slept, as if his wife Had put laudanum in his drink. Mrs. Gossip drew wide the curtains aside, The candle had burn'd to the socket, And lo ! Timothy stood, all cover'd with blood, With his right hand in his pocket.
Page 285 - Christmas-days ago, it was discovered, on sitting down, that one little accompaniment of the roast beef had been entirely overlooked. Would it be believed ? but I will not stay to mystify ; I merely mention the fact. They had forgotten the horse-radish ! The next day arrived, and with it a neat epistle, sealed with violet-coloured wax, from Upper Brook-street. " Dine with the ladies, at home on Christmas-day.
Page 167 - I'll be your friend, I dont value madam a button ; But I heard Mistress say, dont leave, I pray, Sweet Timothy Slaughter-mutton.