The treasury of modern anecdote, ed. with notes and intr. by W.D. AdamsWilliam Henry Davenport Adams 1881 |
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Página 172 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 247 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Página 266 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.
Página 164 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 47 - ... the necessary ablutions. Nor did he change his linen more frequently than he washed himself. Complaining one day to Dudley North that he was a martyr to the rheumatism, and had ineffectually tried every remedy for its relief, " Pray, my lord," said he, " did you ever try a clean shirt?
Página 10 - Most London dinners evaporate in whispers to one's next-door neighbour. I make it a rule never to speak a word to mine, but fire across the table ; though I broke it once when I heard a lady who sat next me, in a low, sweet voice, say, • No gravy, sir.
Página 177 - Minister as capable of sleeping while he ruined his country — the latter only complained how cruel it was to be denied a solace which other criminals so often enjoyed, that of having a night's rest before their fate.
Página 18 - Good girl ; now you may go. She makes a capital waiter, I assure you; on state occasions Jack Robinson, my carpenter, takes off" his apron and waits too, and does pretty well, but he sometimes naturally makes a mistake and sticks a gimlet into the bread instead of a fork.
Página 15 - ... to have regard to the minor as well as to the more grave duties of his station — to be given to hospitality — and, in order to meet the tastes of his native guests, never to be without a smoked little boy in the bacon-rack, and a cold clergyman on the sideboard. " And as for myself,
Página 135 - Falstaffian bivalves lay before him in their shells. I noticed that he gazed at them anxiously with fork upraised ; then he whispered to me, with a look of anguish, " How shall I do it ? " I described to him the simple process by which the free-born citizens of America were accustomed to accomplish such a task. He seemed satisfied that the thing was feasible, selected the smallest one in the half-dozen (rejecting a large one, "because...