Friends for the fireside: recollections [&c.].1860 |
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... Madam , to tell you , you are the greatest_ " The lady , fearful of what might follow , earnestly interposed , begging he would express no rudeness . The doctor resumed , speaking very loud , and looking very stern , to the increasing ...
... Madam , to tell you , you are the greatest_ " The lady , fearful of what might follow , earnestly interposed , begging he would express no rudeness . The doctor resumed , speaking very loud , and looking very stern , to the increasing ...
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... Madam Dacier , when asked to write in the album of a German traveller , modestly quoted a verse from Sophocles as an apology for her unwillingness to place herself among his learned friends : — " Silence is the female's ornament ...
... Madam Dacier , when asked to write in the album of a German traveller , modestly quoted a verse from Sophocles as an apology for her unwillingness to place herself among his learned friends : — " Silence is the female's ornament ...
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... Madam , you walked at the last ! " " Yes , child , " said she , " but I saw nothing of it . I only looked to see who looked at me . " The origin of the Smiths is an erudite discovery ; - viz . that the numerous family of the Smiths in ...
... Madam , you walked at the last ! " " Yes , child , " said she , " but I saw nothing of it . I only looked to see who looked at me . " The origin of the Smiths is an erudite discovery ; - viz . that the numerous family of the Smiths in ...
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... Madam , if you will have a reply , I liked the Prompter the best , because I heard the most of him , and saw the least of him . " Horace Walpole , speaking of some people of fashion who had hired Drury - Lane Theatre for the purpose of ...
... Madam , if you will have a reply , I liked the Prompter the best , because I heard the most of him , and saw the least of him . " Horace Walpole , speaking of some people of fashion who had hired Drury - Lane Theatre for the purpose of ...
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... Madam , and so would had ever seen it . " He replied very you here , here , if you Every professed , inveterate snuff - taker , at a moderate computation , takes one pinch in ten minutes ; every pinch , with the agreeable ceremony of ...
... Madam , and so would had ever seen it . " He replied very you here , here , if you Every professed , inveterate snuff - taker , at a moderate computation , takes one pinch in ten minutes ; every pinch , with the agreeable ceremony of ...
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Страница 186 - I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals; for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one and Judge Such-a-one; so with physicians — I will not speak of my own trade — soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Страница 294 - I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; The reason why I cannot tell; But this I know and know full well. I do not like thee. Doctor Fell!
Страница 253 - If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
Страница 206 - ... and such pleasures only imparted as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude. An elevated genius employed in little things appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less.
Страница 3 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too far.
Страница 110 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Страница 149 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you " That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect ; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling, and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner time — when the table is full.
Страница 120 - Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers...
Страница 150 - He is of opinion that the urn is the more elegant shape; but, after all, there was something more comfortable about the old tea-kettle, which you must remember. He dare say you must find a great convenience in having a carriage of your own, and appealeth to your lady if it is not so. Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family.
Страница 308 - Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?