Comic Miseries of Human Life: An Old Friend in a New DressDewitt & Davenport, 1856 - 182 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17
... obliging you to lift your foot , and limp along , like a pig in a string ; no knife in your pocket , nor house within reach ! 2. The boot continually taking in gravel ; while , for a time , you try to calm your feelings by believing it ...
... obliging you to lift your foot , and limp along , like a pig in a string ; no knife in your pocket , nor house within reach ! 2. The boot continually taking in gravel ; while , for a time , you try to calm your feelings by believing it ...
Pàgina 22
... obliged to sit down to table with a large party , ( each of whom is clean and fresh , ) with plastered hair , red varnished face , & c . , & c . 26. Venturing upon a pinch of snuff in the open air , a sudden puff of wind emptying your ...
... obliged to sit down to table with a large party , ( each of whom is clean and fresh , ) with plastered hair , red varnished face , & c . , & c . 26. Venturing upon a pinch of snuff in the open air , a sudden puff of wind emptying your ...
Pàgina 23
... obliged , for the preservation of your life , to stop at some lone , mean , public house , undress , and get between the blan- kets , while your clothes are drying : then , after you have lain awake like a fool for a couple of hours ...
... obliged , for the preservation of your life , to stop at some lone , mean , public house , undress , and get between the blan- kets , while your clothes are drying : then , after you have lain awake like a fool for a couple of hours ...
Pàgina 24
... obliged to go , " but who " cannot bear to part with you so soon " -the party chiefly consisting of ladies , to whom you are , on every account , ashamed to plead fatigue as an excuse for remaining at home . 36. In a very solitary ...
... obliged to go , " but who " cannot bear to part with you so soon " -the party chiefly consisting of ladies , to whom you are , on every account , ashamed to plead fatigue as an excuse for remaining at home . 36. In a very solitary ...
Pàgina 25
... obliged to get at all the necessaries of life by stratagem . 39. While deeply , delightfully , and , as you hope , safely , engaged at home in the morning - being suddenly surprised by an inroad from a party of the starched , stupid ...
... obliged to get at all the necessaries of life by stratagem . 39. While deeply , delightfully , and , as you hope , safely , engaged at home in the morning - being suddenly surprised by an inroad from a party of the starched , stupid ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 80 - 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 43 - Not to mention the misery of turning back, splashing along at full speed, and fighting your way through the crowd ; and all this, in order to go the longest way round, and be too late at last ! 4.
Pàgina 157 - ... 16. At a ball; — when you have set your heart on dancing with a particular favourite, — at the moment when you delightedly see him advancing towards you, being briskly accosted by a conceited simpleton at your elbow, whom you cannot endure, but who obtains (because you know not in what manner to refuse) ' the honour of your hand
Pàgina 85 - 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.
Pàgina 149 - Rashly confessing that you have a slight cold, in the hearing of certain elderly ladies ' of the faculty,' who instantly form themselves into a consultation upon your case, and assail you with a volley of nostrums, all of which, if you would have a moment's peace, you must solemnly promise to take off before night— though well satisfied that they would retaliate, by ' taking you off ' before morning !
Pàgina 45 - ... past . . . clock . . . morning! " then, after impatiently lingering through another hour for the sound of your own clock (which had before been roared down by the watchman), being roused to listen by its preparatory click and purr, followed by one stroke — which you are to make the most of — the rest being cut short by a violent fit of coughing with which you are seized at the instant. lîeing accelerated in your walk by the lively application of a chairman's pole a pmteriori, his "by your...
Pàgina 44 - ... towards another passenger, (a scavenger,) who is doing the same ; then meeting, with the shock of two battering-rams, which drives your whole stock of breath out of your body, with the groan of a paviour : — ruinam Dant sonitu ingentem, perfractaque .... Pectora pectoribus rumpunt.
Pàgina 22 - 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 22 - Aquarius — at a leap:-— behold the ruthless vapours! — they halt — they muster, directly over-head ; — at the signal of a thunder-clap, they pour down their contents with a steady perpendicular discharge, and the assault is continued, without a moment's pause, till every meadow is completely got under, and the •whole scene of action is a swamp. When the enemy has performed his commission by a total defeat of your hopes, when he has completely swept the field, and scattered your whole...