The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, Том 1Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 |
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... given , it would be of admirable effect in the dis- patch of public business , as well as private conver- sation ; nay , in the very writing of books , for which I refer the reader to the fable of the Bees , and the two elaborate ...
... given , it would be of admirable effect in the dis- patch of public business , as well as private conver- sation ; nay , in the very writing of books , for which I refer the reader to the fable of the Bees , and the two elaborate ...
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... given , that those who did not choose to support the king's measures should ground their arms . When , behold , to his utter confusion , and their eternal honour - the whole body grounded their arms . A grave writer on the laws of ...
... given , that those who did not choose to support the king's measures should ground their arms . When , behold , to his utter confusion , and their eternal honour - the whole body grounded their arms . A grave writer on the laws of ...
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... given another hundred To Vere , Earl Poulett's second son , Who dearly loves a little fun . Unto my nephew , Robert Longdon , Of whom none says he e'er has wrong done , Tho ' civil law he loves to hash , I give two hundred pounds in ...
... given another hundred To Vere , Earl Poulett's second son , Who dearly loves a little fun . Unto my nephew , Robert Longdon , Of whom none says he e'er has wrong done , Tho ' civil law he loves to hash , I give two hundred pounds in ...
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... given them for waiting on them , and the half- crowns they got for pimping , in regaling some ladies of the town ; and were going to a neigh- bouring race . I joined with Tom in laughing at my own simplicity , and then we laughed at the ...
... given them for waiting on them , and the half- crowns they got for pimping , in regaling some ladies of the town ; and were going to a neigh- bouring race . I joined with Tom in laughing at my own simplicity , and then we laughed at the ...
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... given some testimony of it . I think that being exiled from it is a great evil , and would redeem myself from it with the loss of a great deal of my blood . But when that country of mine , which used to be esteemed a paradise , is now ...
... given some testimony of it . I think that being exiled from it is a great evil , and would redeem myself from it with the loss of a great deal of my blood . But when that country of mine , which used to be esteemed a paradise , is now ...
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Страница 308 - Up flew the windows all, And every soul cried out, Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin— who but he ; His fame soon spread around — He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Страница 308 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Страница 304 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Страница 305 - So three doors off the chaise was stayed, where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog to dash through thick and thin.
Страница 410 - Yet, oh yet, thyself deceive not; Love may sink by slow decay, But by sudden wrench, believe not Hearts can thus be torn away: Still thine own its life retaineth, Still must mine, though bleeding, beat ; And the undying thought which paineth Is — that we no more may meet.
Страница 311 - Ah luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.
Страница 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Страница 312 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Страница 231 - was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine...
Страница 159 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...