The modern Joe Miller, ed. by R.C.W.1871 |
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... figures from here to sunset , and cipher them all up , and it wouldn't begin to tell how long eternity is . Why , my friends , after millions and trillions of years had rolled away , it would be a hundred thousand years to breakfast ...
... figures from here to sunset , and cipher them all up , and it wouldn't begin to tell how long eternity is . Why , my friends , after millions and trillions of years had rolled away , it would be a hundred thousand years to breakfast ...
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... figure and face he had gained the nickname of " Abe Punch . " One night Braham acted in the " Siege of Belgrade , " a piece in which , as the hero , he is supposed to be inquiring for his father . The scene represented an inn . The ...
... figure and face he had gained the nickname of " Abe Punch . " One night Braham acted in the " Siege of Belgrade , " a piece in which , as the hero , he is supposed to be inquiring for his father . The scene represented an inn . The ...
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... with such slender means , to make so respectable a figure was much to his credit . " Yes , " replied a friend , " and to the credit of his tradesmen . " JACK'S WISHES . In order to ascertain the idea a THE MODERN JOE MILLER . 71.
... with such slender means , to make so respectable a figure was much to his credit . " Yes , " replied a friend , " and to the credit of his tradesmen . " JACK'S WISHES . In order to ascertain the idea a THE MODERN JOE MILLER . 71.
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... figures upon it the figures of Margaret , sister of the Earl of Kent , and the Earl of Somerset and Duke of Clarence , her two lawfully - married husbands : they are all lying together in expectation of a happier state . " " And was all ...
... figures upon it the figures of Margaret , sister of the Earl of Kent , and the Earl of Somerset and Duke of Clarence , her two lawfully - married husbands : they are all lying together in expectation of a happier state . " " And was all ...
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... A gentleman being delighted at a puppet - show , bought Punch , and was mortified to find when he took it home that the figure had lost all its humour . RESPECT . " It's all very well , " said THE MODERN JOE MILLER .
... A gentleman being delighted at a puppet - show , bought Punch , and was mortified to find when he took it home that the figure had lost all its humour . RESPECT . " It's all very well , " said THE MODERN JOE MILLER .
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Página 43 - Tis reason a man that will have a wife should be at the charge of her trinkets, and pay all the scores she sets on him. He that will keep a monkey, 'tis fit he should pay for the glasses he breaks.
Página 88 - Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.
Página 43 - Jews, that they are cursed, they thrive where'er they come ; they are able to oblige the prince of their country, by lending him money ; none of them beg, they keep together, and for their being hated, my life for yours, Christians hate one another as much.
Página 44 - They passed on, and arrived before Goldsmith, who came soon after, and Mr. Burke affected to receive him very coolly. This seemed to vex poor Goldsmith, who begged Mr. Burke would tell him how he had had the misfortune to offend him. Burke appeared very reluctant to speak ; but, after a good deal of pressing, said, " that he was really ashamed to keep up an intimacy with one who could be guilty of such monstrous indiscretions as Goldsmith had just exhibited in the square. " Goldsmith, with great...
Página 179 - Remodelled by its Original Editor, CHARLES KNIGHT, with Selections from Authors added whose works have placed them amongst the "Best Authors" since the publication of the First Edition.
Página 39 - Nor ought we to pass over the only mot that will ever be recorded of Charles X., uttered on his return to France in 1814, on seeing, like our second Charles at a similar reception, that the adversaries of his family had disappeared — "There is only one Frenchman the more.
Página 43 - OF all Actions of a Man's Life, his Marriage does least concern other people, yet of all Actions of our Life 'tis most meddled with by other People.
Página 32 - To this night's masquerade,' quoth Dick, ' By pleasure I am beckon'd, And think 'twould be a pleasant trick To go as Charles the Second.' Tom felt for repartee a thirst, And thus to Richard said — * You'd better go as Charles the First, For that requires no head.
Página 23 - To John I ow'd great obligation ; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation : Sure John and I are more than quit.
Página 118 - In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk; Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.