Harrington. Thoughts on bores. OrmondWhittaker, 1848 |
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... means to keep so close to the house as she had done of late : she went out therefore every night to refresh herself at crowded parties ; and as soon as she left the house , the nurse and every body in the family left me . The servants ...
... means to keep so close to the house as she had done of late : she went out therefore every night to refresh herself at crowded parties ; and as soon as she left the house , the nurse and every body in the family left me . The servants ...
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... means . My father —for all this time , though I have never mentioned him , I had a father living — my father , being in public life , and much occupied with the affairs of the nation , had little leisure to attend to his family . A ...
... means . My father —for all this time , though I have never mentioned him , I had a father living — my father , being in public life , and much occupied with the affairs of the nation , had little leisure to attend to his family . A ...
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... mean , avaricious , unprincipled , treacherous character . Even the peculiarities of their persons , the errors of their foreign dialect and pronunciation , were mimicked and caricatured , as if to render them objects of perpetual ...
... mean , avaricious , unprincipled , treacherous character . Even the peculiarities of their persons , the errors of their foreign dialect and pronunciation , were mimicked and caricatured , as if to render them objects of perpetual ...
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... mean by that pitiful threat ? Appeal to the higher powers if you dare , and I'll make you repent it , you usurer ! Only do , if you dare ! ” cried he , clenching his hand and opening it , so as to present , successively , the two ideas ...
... mean by that pitiful threat ? Appeal to the higher powers if you dare , and I'll make you repent it , you usurer ! Only do , if you dare ! ” cried he , clenching his hand and opening it , so as to present , successively , the two ideas ...
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... means - upon your conscience , if you ever heard of any such thing - don't you think yourself a most pitiful dog , to persist in coming here to be made game of for twopence ? ' Tis wonderful how much your thoroughbred Jew will do and ...
... means - upon your conscience , if you ever heard of any such thing - don't you think yourself a most pitiful dog , to persist in coming here to be made game of for twopence ? ' Tis wonderful how much your thoroughbred Jew will do and ...
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Страница 60 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated* me About my moneys and my usances :* Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Страница 92 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling wak'd, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, — Such terrible impression made my dream.
Страница 61 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is...
Страница 50 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Страница 60 - Go to, then; you come to me, and you say 'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold; moneys is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say 'Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?
Страница 41 - These encomiums warmed me, but did not overset me. I knew where I should have the pull, which was in the third act, and accordingly at this period I threw out all my fire; and as the contrasted passions of joy for the merchant's losses, and grief for the elopement of Jessica, open a fine field for an actor's powers, I had the good fortune to please beyond my most sanguine expectations.
Страница 61 - ... if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Страница 42 - The trial scene wound up the fulness of my reputation. Here I was well listened to, and here I made such a silent yet forcible impression on my audience, that I retired from this great attempt most perfectly satisfied.
Страница 61 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Страница 41 - Sir, (said the veteran,-) I eyed through the slit of the curtain, and was glad to see there, as I wished, in such a cause, to be tried by a special jury. "When I made my appearance in the green-room, dressed for the part, with my red hat on my head, my piqued beard, loose black gown, &c.