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... Master Charles's birthday . " " Be aisy now , " rejoined the foot- man , " none of your blarney . Sure ' twas Master Dick's birthday on Tuesday , an ' how can it be his brother's to- day unless they're twins ? " AN EXPENSIVE PLACE ...
... Master Charles's birthday . " " Be aisy now , " rejoined the foot- man , " none of your blarney . Sure ' twas Master Dick's birthday on Tuesday , an ' how can it be his brother's to- day unless they're twins ? " AN EXPENSIVE PLACE ...
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... master and announced the alarming intelligence . Down he rushed with him . A large kettle of boiling water was on the fire . ' Well , why don't you put out the fire ? " " I can't , surr . ' " Why , you fool , pour the water upon it ...
... master and announced the alarming intelligence . Down he rushed with him . A large kettle of boiling water was on the fire . ' Well , why don't you put out the fire ? " " I can't , surr . ' " Why , you fool , pour the water upon it ...
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... master that the others had spoken the truth . ODD PROLOGUE . An Irish member of a strolling company once advertised for his benefit , " An occasional address to be spoken by a new actor . " This excited great expectations among the ...
... master that the others had spoken the truth . ODD PROLOGUE . An Irish member of a strolling company once advertised for his benefit , " An occasional address to be spoken by a new actor . " This excited great expectations among the ...
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... master of Westminster School through such turbulent times as the nation had then passed through , replied , " The fathers govern the nation ; the mothers govern the fathers ; but the boys govern the mothers , and I govern the boys . " A ...
... master of Westminster School through such turbulent times as the nation had then passed through , replied , " The fathers govern the nation ; the mothers govern the fathers ; but the boys govern the mothers , and I govern the boys . " A ...
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... master won't let me out on May - day — he says it's low life . " 66 FOLLOW MY LEADER . At a grand review by George III . of the Portsmouth fleet in 1789 , there was a boy who mounted the shrouds with so much agility , as to surprise ...
... master won't let me out on May - day — he says it's low life . " 66 FOLLOW MY LEADER . At a grand review by George III . of the Portsmouth fleet in 1789 , there was a boy who mounted the shrouds with so much agility , as to surprise ...
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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.