The Miseries of Human Life, Or, the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive: With a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy, with which are Now for the First Time Interspersed, Varieties, Incidental to the Principal Matter, in Prose and Verse, in Nine Additional Dialogues as Overheard by James Beresford, Volum 1W. Miller, 1807 |
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Pàgina 5
... give up the double - refined fancy of always leaving poor body in the basket.— I think , Mr Samuel , I may now be bold enough to suspect , with all my fleshy lumber about me , that our grieving implements , on both sides , are made ...
... give up the double - refined fancy of always leaving poor body in the basket.— I think , Mr Samuel , I may now be bold enough to suspect , with all my fleshy lumber about me , that our grieving implements , on both sides , are made ...
Pàgina 12
... give it them in plain English , pray , while you are about it ; when a man is in earnest , he always talks in his mother- tongue ; besides , quoting from a dead lan- guage looks a little like skulking , and that's not at all in my way ...
... give it them in plain English , pray , while you are about it ; when a man is in earnest , he always talks in his mother- tongue ; besides , quoting from a dead lan- guage looks a little like skulking , and that's not at all in my way ...
Pàgina 21
... Give me leave to begin . Sen. Willingly , Sir ; and the more so , as I shall thereby enjoy ( enjoy ! ) a momentary respite from the lashes of memory . Tes . ( Hastily running over his papers , ) Thank you , thank you ; —aye , here they ...
... Give me leave to begin . Sen. Willingly , Sir ; and the more so , as I shall thereby enjoy ( enjoy ! ) a momentary respite from the lashes of memory . Tes . ( Hastily running over his papers , ) Thank you , thank you ; —aye , here they ...
Pàgina 36
... give you a country - misery , from which there is not a whit less wear and tear to the nerves , and where you have no possible means of escape --- judge for yourself . 32. ( T. ) Following on horse - back a slow cart , through an ...
... give you a country - misery , from which there is not a whit less wear and tear to the nerves , and where you have no possible means of escape --- judge for yourself . 32. ( T. ) Following on horse - back a slow cart , through an ...
Pàgina 44
... for a man of your temper ; --- I will give you mine . 5. ( T. ) In archery - the string of your bow snapping , at the moment when you have made sure of your aim . Sen. Almost as bad : --- this is the " 44 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
... for a man of your temper ; --- I will give you mine . 5. ( T. ) In archery - the string of your bow snapping , at the moment when you have made sure of your aim . Sen. Almost as bad : --- this is the " 44 MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 130 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pàgina 302 - For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Pàgina 53 - Death ! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. The sun himself by thy permission shines, And one day thou shalt pluck him from his sphere : Amid such mighty plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Pàgina 228 - IiOud was the noise, aghast was every guest. The women shriek'd, the men forsook the feast...
Pàgina 30 - ... scullion — after having long overlooked and animated their busy labours, and seen the exuberant produce turned and re-turned under a smiling sun, till every blade is as dry as a bone, and as sweet as a rose...
Pàgina 64 - Stopping in the street to address a person whom you know rather too well to pass him without speaking, and yet not quite well enough to have a word to say to him — he feeling himself in the same dilemma — so that...
Pàgina 278 - tis possible for woman To suffer greater ills than Lucia suffers ? MARCIA. 0 Lucia, Lucia, might my big-swoln heart Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow Marcia could answer thee in sighs, keep pace • With all thy woes, and count out tear for tear.
Pàgina 31 - While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been only singing all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed !— if / had •been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment, " Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas,...
Pàgina 136 - After having left a company in which you have been galled by the raillery of some wag by profession, thinking, at your leisure, of a repartee, which, if discharged at the proper moment, would have blown him to atoms.
Pàgina 141 - Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign ; and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroil'd. And Discord, with a thousand various mouths.