Asmodeus: Or, The Devil in London: a Sketch, Volumen2

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Página 31 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die : I think, there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him : — A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Página 113 - 11 drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid ; He shall live a man forbid: Weary sev'n nights, nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine: Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-toss'd.
Página 45 - A half-blown rose stuck in thy braided hair, With no more diamonds than those eyes are made of, No deeper rubies than compose thy lips, Nor pearls more precious than inhabit them ; With the pure red and white, which that same hand Which blends the rainbow mingles in thy cheeks ; This...
Página 45 - ... half-blown rose stuck in thy braided hair, With no more diamonds than those eyes are made of. No deeper rubies than compose thy lips, Nor pearls more precious than inhabit them, With the pure red and white, which that same hand Which blends the rainbow mingles in thy cheeks: This well-proportioned form (think not I flatter).
Página 22 - In short, the whole of his deportment consisted in the wild excesses of a disordered imagination" — " 'Twos sad fy fits — by ttarti 'twas wild.
Página 9 - Newgate : a second forgets, that the bailiffs have expelled him from, his lodgings : and a third,, that all his worldly possessions are not equal to the expences of a dinner.
Página 21 - ... of art. His first appearance chilled the blood with horror ; and his delirium alarmed' t by its fury.— or, by its solemnity, imposed thereTerence of awe.
Página 120 - But the old harridan took it into her head to fall in love with a young apothecary, who, lately, settled in the neighbourhood : she married him, and discarded her niece the day after the ceremony.

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