Old Times and New: Or, A Few Raps Over the Knuckles of the Present Agepublishers, 1846 - 93 páginas |
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Página iii
... sort of spirit — old fashioned , and so settled down in habits that he despised change and preferred hovering in the air rather than be disturbed by a mercan- tile resurrection , and in this manner I account for his spirit being ready ...
... sort of spirit — old fashioned , and so settled down in habits that he despised change and preferred hovering in the air rather than be disturbed by a mercan- tile resurrection , and in this manner I account for his spirit being ready ...
Página vi
... sort of deductions , CHAPTER XI . 66 Hans is shown a modern map of antique “ Niew Amster- dam , " his Dutch blood is consequently in tho- rough commotion , and he gives a few of his opin- ions about capital punishment , CHAPTER XII . 30 ...
... sort of deductions , CHAPTER XI . 66 Hans is shown a modern map of antique “ Niew Amster- dam , " his Dutch blood is consequently in tho- rough commotion , and he gives a few of his opin- ions about capital punishment , CHAPTER XII . 30 ...
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... sort of upper - crust generation of divinities , who have no more regard for the days that were , than though those days ne'er had been ; who never think of looking back upon old friends , seasons , buildings , lest , like Lot's wife ...
... sort of upper - crust generation of divinities , who have no more regard for the days that were , than though those days ne'er had been ; who never think of looking back upon old friends , seasons , buildings , lest , like Lot's wife ...
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... sort of stucco plastered over one's faults when he is dead , a damning with faint praise . ' Tis said scandal trips up the heels of good reputations , and , like a blight or mildew , prevents character from ripening . It is a notorious ...
... sort of stucco plastered over one's faults when he is dead , a damning with faint praise . ' Tis said scandal trips up the heels of good reputations , and , like a blight or mildew , prevents character from ripening . It is a notorious ...
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... sort , but the town thought so , and the town's thought ensures any man Chris- tian burial , a few lines of poetry , and a slab to put them on . He was , as I have said , addicted to schnap . It must how- ever be recollected that schnap ...
... sort , but the town thought so , and the town's thought ensures any man Chris- tian burial , a few lines of poetry , and a slab to put them on . He was , as I have said , addicted to schnap . It must how- ever be recollected that schnap ...
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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.