Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... young ) who , having a good while given her guest neat entertainment , a capon being brought upon the table , instead of a spoon , she took a mouthful of claret , and spouted into the hollow bird : such an accident happened in this ...
... young ) who , having a good while given her guest neat entertainment , a capon being brought upon the table , instead of a spoon , she took a mouthful of claret , and spouted into the hollow bird : such an accident happened in this ...
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... young viceroys , And have you your punks and punketees , my Surly ; And unto thee , I speak it first , BE RICH . Where is my Subtle , there ? Within , oh ! Face . [ within ] Sir , he'll come to you by and by . Mam . That is his ...
... young viceroys , And have you your punks and punketees , my Surly ; And unto thee , I speak it first , BE RICH . Where is my Subtle , there ? Within , oh ! Face . [ within ] Sir , he'll come to you by and by . Mam . That is his ...
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William Hazlitt. Become stout Marses , and beget young Cupids . * * You are incredulous . Surly . Faith , I have a humour . I would not willingly be gulled . Your stone Cannot transmute me . Mam . Pertinax , my Surly , Will you believe ...
William Hazlitt. Become stout Marses , and beget young Cupids . * * You are incredulous . Surly . Faith , I have a humour . I would not willingly be gulled . Your stone Cannot transmute me . Mam . Pertinax , my Surly , Will you believe ...
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... young sinner ? Pr'ythee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well , can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Pr'ythee why so mute ? Quit , quit for shame , this will not move , This cannot take her ; If of herself she will not love , Nothing ...
... young sinner ? Pr'ythee why so mute ? Will , when speaking well , can't win her , Saying nothing do't ? Pr'ythee why so mute ? Quit , quit for shame , this will not move , This cannot take her ; If of herself she will not love , Nothing ...
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... young colt's neck . Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they feared the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . * Her cheeks so rare a white ...
... young colt's neck . Her feet beneath her petticoat , Like little mice , stole in and out , As if they feared the light : But oh ! she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . * Her cheeks so rare a white ...
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Página 37 - tis certain ; very sure, very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all ; all shall die.
Página 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Página 72 - ... lover? Prithee why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?
Página 69 - tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.
Página 68 - tis some bravery. That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. The Blossom Little thinkst thou, poor flower. Whom I have watched six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise, And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough, Little thinkst thou That it will freeze anon, and that I shall Tomorrow find thee fall'n, or not at all...
Página 14 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Página 18 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Página 62 - Do we succeed? Is our day come? and holds it? Face. The evening will set red upon you, sir; You have colour for it, crimson : the red ferment Has done, his office; three hours hence prepare you To see projection. Mam. Pertinax, my Surly, Again I say to thee aloud, Be rich. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th
Página 77 - Drinks up the sea, and when he 's done. The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun: They drink and dance by their own light, They drink and revel all the night: Nothing in Nature 's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.
Página 94 - Beauty the lover's gift! Lord, what is a lover, that it can give? Why, one makes lovers as fast as one pleases, and they live as long as one pleases, and they die as soon as one pleases; and then, if one pleases, one makes more.