Memoirs of a Water DrinkerSaunders and Otley, 1837 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actor admiration Allen appeared Atherton attention aunt beautiful Cadwallader called Captain John Smith Captain Smith Cato's cause character colour companion Cooke's creature Davenport death delight Doctor door dress Emma Portland Epsom eyes face fard father fear feelings felt gentleman George Frederick Cooke girl give Governor Tompkins happiness harpsichord head heard Henry Henry Johnson hero Hilson honour hope husband Johnson Kip's Bay knew lady laugh Littlejohn looked Lord Anson Lovedog marriage mind mother never New-York night Othello passed person physician physiognomy play poor reader scene seen Shakspeare sick sirr sister smiles Spiff Spiffard-town stage stood switchel tell theatre thing thought told took tragedian Trowbridge Trusty truth turned uncon Vermont voice walk water-drinker wife Williams wine wish woman words Yankee young youth Zebediah Spiffard
Pasajes populares
Página 177 - Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Página 45 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 129 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 177 - Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.
Página 91 - I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
Página 153 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Página 119 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Página 145 - Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Página 91 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Página 108 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.