Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?]. |
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And now , behold me at the age of twenty - five , well stocked with Latin , Greek , and Mathematics , possessed of an ample fortune , but so aukward and unversed in every gentleman - like accomplishment , that I am pointed at by all who ...
And now , behold me at the age of twenty - five , well stocked with Latin , Greek , and Mathematics , possessed of an ample fortune , but so aukward and unversed in every gentleman - like accomplishment , that I am pointed at by all who ...
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Sir Thomas Friendly , who lives about two miles distant , is a baronet , with about two thousand pounds a year estate , joining to that I purchased ; he has two sons , and five daughters , all grown up , and living with their mother and ...
Sir Thomas Friendly , who lives about two miles distant , is a baronet , with about two thousand pounds a year estate , joining to that I purchased ; he has two sons , and five daughters , all grown up , and living with their mother and ...
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I was born in Shropshire ; my father was a labourer , and died when I was five years old ; so tha I was put upon the parish . As he had been a wan dering sort of a man , the parishioners were not able ............ . to tell to what ...
I was born in Shropshire ; my father was a labourer , and died when I was five years old ; so tha I was put upon the parish . As he had been a wan dering sort of a man , the parishioners were not able ............ . to tell to what ...
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I had some disposition to be a scholar , and was resolved , at least , to know my letters ; but the master of the workhouse put me to business as soon as I was able to handle a mallet ; and here I lived an easy kind of life for five ...
I had some disposition to be a scholar , and was resolved , at least , to know my letters ; but the master of the workhouse put me to business as soon as I was able to handle a mallet ; and here I lived an easy kind of life for five ...
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This kind of life was too good to last for ever ; so I was taken out of prison , after five months , put on board a ship , and sent off , with two hundred more , to the plantations . We had but an indifferent pas sage , for being all ...
This kind of life was too good to last for ever ; so I was taken out of prison , after five months , put on board a ship , and sent off , with two hundred more , to the plantations . We had but an indifferent pas sage , for being all ...
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Página 3 - Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song. Away went Gilpin out of breath, And sore against his will, Till at his friend the calender's His horse at last stood still.
Página 1 - yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Página 3 - And till he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay. And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. Stop, stop, John Gilpin! — Here's the house...
Página 1 - I fell upon my knees, begged his worship's pardon, and began to give a full account of all that I knew of my breed, seed, and generation; but, though I gave a very...
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| Título | Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?]. Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?] |
| Editor | G.Nicholson and Company, 1795 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 19 Feb. 2008 |
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