Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English LiteratureJ. Lane, 1925 - 299 pàgines |
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... WATCH 146 XLII . Two OLD GLOSTERSHIRE GENTLEMEN ON LIFE AND DEATH . 1.49 XLIII . SIR WILFULL MEETS HIS BROTHER 151 XLIV . PARTRIDGE SEES A PLAY 153 XLV . BOB ACRES IN TROUBLE XLVI . BAILIE JARVIE X Fools and Philosophers.
... WATCH 146 XLII . Two OLD GLOSTERSHIRE GENTLEMEN ON LIFE AND DEATH . 1.49 XLIII . SIR WILFULL MEETS HIS BROTHER 151 XLIV . PARTRIDGE SEES A PLAY 153 XLV . BOB ACRES IN TROUBLE XLVI . BAILIE JARVIE X Fools and Philosophers.
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... brothers , revolted tapsters , and ostlers trade - fallen ; the cankers of a calm world and a long peace , ten times more dishonour- able ragged than an old faced ancient and such have I , to fill up the rooms of them that have bought ...
... brothers , revolted tapsters , and ostlers trade - fallen ; the cankers of a calm world and a long peace , ten times more dishonour- able ragged than an old faced ancient and such have I , to fill up the rooms of them that have bought ...
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... brother Toby , cried my father , raising himself upon his elbow , and turning himself round to the opposite side of the bed , where my uncle Toby was sitting in his old fringed chair , with his chin resting upon his crutch - did ever a ...
... brother Toby , cried my father , raising himself upon his elbow , and turning himself round to the opposite side of the bed , where my uncle Toby was sitting in his old fringed chair , with his chin resting upon his crutch - did ever a ...
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... brother Tom's misfortunes , for we were all three schoolfellows , but I cry like a coward . - Tears are no proof of cowardice , Trim . - I drop them oft - times myself , cried my uncle Toby . - I know your honour does , replied Trim ...
... brother Tom's misfortunes , for we were all three schoolfellows , but I cry like a coward . - Tears are no proof of cowardice , Trim . - I drop them oft - times myself , cried my uncle Toby . - I know your honour does , replied Trim ...
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... brother's heart , Trim - I would freely have given a hundred pounds rather than it should have happened . - A hundred pounds , an ' please your honour ! replied Trim . - I would not give a cherry - stone to boot . - Nor would I , Trim ...
... brother's heart , Trim - I would freely have given a hundred pounds rather than it should have happened . - A hundred pounds , an ' please your honour ! replied Trim . - I would not give a cherry - stone to boot . - Nor would I , Trim ...
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Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature John Boynton Priestley Visualització completa - 1925 |
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ACRES answered asked BEEFEATER Betsey Bless Bob Sawyer brother Chadband child Copperfield cried Crummles dear dear Jane demd dish door doth drink Elphin eyes FALSTAFF father feel fellow Fledgeby Frank Churchill Gamp gentleman give Guppy hand Harris head hear honour hope inquired J. B. PRIESTLEY Jack Jorrocks Joseph lady Lammle legs look Lord Madame Mantalini Malaprop Marchioness Master Micawber Micawber's Miss mother Muleygrubs never Nicholas Nick Bottom Nickleby night observed Partridge Pecksniff Peter Quince Pickwick PIST play Prig PRINCE PUFF Pumblechook QUIN replied Robin Starveling round Samivel Sammy Seithenyn Serjeant Buzfuz shaking SHAL Shandy SIR LUC Sir Lucius Skimpole smile Snagsby speak sure Swiveller Taliesin talk Teithrin tell Terewth thee there's thing thou Todgers Toots Traddles Trim uncle Toby Waldengarver Weller wery Winkle wish word young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 209 - You were in the passage and yet saw nothing of what was going forward. Have you a pair of eyes, Mr. Weller ? " "Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, "and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes you see, my wision's limited.
Pàgina 14 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is in that word honour ? what is that honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o
Pàgina 262 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries. But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Pàgina 235 - Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by and all in two minutes and a quarter.
Pàgina 261 - In my way hither, Mrs. Malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library! — She had a book in each hand — they were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! — from that moment I guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress ! Mrs.
Pàgina 226 - But the fact is that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years longer), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place— which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years.
Pàgina 150 - Sir, I am a true labourer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.
Pàgina 165 - Clean through me ! — a ball or two clean through me ! Sir Luc. Ay — may they — and it is much the genteelest attitude into the bargain. Acres. Look'ee ! sir Lucius — I'd just as lieve be shot in an awkward posture as a genteel one ; so, by my valour ! I will stand edgeways.
Pàgina 85 - I care not how fast it rolls on, while such purl on the bank still is growing, and such eyes light the waves as they run. Marchioness, your health.
Pàgina 252 - Ay, dear Foible; thank thee for that, dear Foible. He has put me out of all patience. I shall never" recompose my features to receive Sir Rowland with any economy of face. This wretch has fretted me that I am absolutely decayed.