Old Times and New: Or, A Few Raps Over the Knuckles of the Present Agepublishers, 1846 - 93 páginas |
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Página iv
... reason why I write this book is because I have more ideas than I know what to do with , and the less rea- son is interest . It is horribly Dutch - a scare - crow to all other nations- Dutch as a Zuyderzee red herring , or a ...
... reason why I write this book is because I have more ideas than I know what to do with , and the less rea- son is interest . It is horribly Dutch - a scare - crow to all other nations- Dutch as a Zuyderzee red herring , or a ...
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... reason ; though I have seen many a well- bred modern bow - wow , who would eat gingerbread man- fully , and the best of Holland gingerbread too - a good tooth extracter . Hans was one of your would - be general officers , who think it ...
... reason ; though I have seen many a well- bred modern bow - wow , who would eat gingerbread man- fully , and the best of Holland gingerbread too - a good tooth extracter . Hans was one of your would - be general officers , who think it ...
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... reason . He was called a good man by some , an upright man by all , and one evidently under spiritual influence , but he died— suddenly ; like a flash , quick as a solitary drop of schnap finds its way out of an unstopped bottle , so ...
... reason . He was called a good man by some , an upright man by all , and one evidently under spiritual influence , but he died— suddenly ; like a flash , quick as a solitary drop of schnap finds its way out of an unstopped bottle , so ...
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... reason it was an antique virtue , and anything surviving of virtue is hunted to death , ) yet for him , ( Heaven preserve his memory in a bottle of the purest , with no other poetry than " Fine old Holland , " ) it added certainly to ...
... reason it was an antique virtue , and anything surviving of virtue is hunted to death , ) yet for him , ( Heaven preserve his memory in a bottle of the purest , with no other poetry than " Fine old Holland , " ) it added certainly to ...
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... reason - his pole was used to rap for admission , but obstinacy and silence only answered ; suddenly he saw a light flash above the win- dow , and quick as the flash , he knew not how and was not Yankee enough to guess , he found ...
... reason - his pole was used to rap for admission , but obstinacy and silence only answered ; suddenly he saw a light flash above the win- dow , and quick as the flash , he knew not how and was not Yankee enough to guess , he found ...
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Términos y frases comunes
alderman allopath animals Art thou assumpsit awake bear believe better blood body bones bottle breath breeches bulls buried CHAPTER church considered countenance Croton dead death delight devil disease doctors dogs doors dust Dutchmen English epitaph fashion father fellow forefathers freely Garretson gentleman gilded gingerbread Grahamite grave hands hang Hans's head heart Heaven Holland human Hydropathy hyssop ideas invented lame duck lived look lotion low church mankind Mesmerism morning mortality mouth murder nature never NIEW AMSTERDAM nose obstinately old Dutch old women patient philosophers pill poet poor pray preached Pythagoras quacks remember remind Replevin rogues saltpetre scandal schnap sexton sigh sinners sleep sons of liberty sort soul spirit staff of office steam steamboat swallow tell thee things thought tion tomb turtle turtle soup upright vanity virtue voices walls wife younkers
Pasajes populares
Página 47 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 47 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Página 65 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here...
Página 47 - Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again ! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse...
Página 43 - I'll stab thee. Fal. I call thee coward? I'll see thee gibbeted ere I call thee coward : but I would give a thousand pounds I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back : call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! Give me them that will face me. Give me a cup of sack.
Página 88 - Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds The better to beguile.