Olla podridaT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... turn upon the weather , the news , and the common occurrences of the day : when we are become more intimate , we shall be more communicative ; we may then proceed to the discussion of various weighty points of fashion , honour ...
... turn upon the weather , the news , and the common occurrences of the day : when we are become more intimate , we shall be more communicative ; we may then proceed to the discussion of various weighty points of fashion , honour ...
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... turn over the pages of literary history , we shall find , that although many have en joyed the gratification of hearing their own praises , and some have even basked in the sunshine of opulent patronage , yet their deaths have been ...
... turn over the pages of literary history , we shall find , that although many have en joyed the gratification of hearing their own praises , and some have even basked in the sunshine of opulent patronage , yet their deaths have been ...
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... turn a corner in London without seeing a beggar , or hear a sailor talk without swearing . A man of fashion keeps up his acquaintance with his alphabet , by playing at the noble game of te - totum , or risking his fortune at an E O ...
... turn a corner in London without seeing a beggar , or hear a sailor talk without swearing . A man of fashion keeps up his acquaintance with his alphabet , by playing at the noble game of te - totum , or risking his fortune at an E O ...
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... turning short ; whether it was by chance , or whether it again proved that a favourite has no friends , was not for me to decide : a glass of brandy was called for : a common gill , enough to warm a poor man in a cold morning , was ...
... turning short ; whether it was by chance , or whether it again proved that a favourite has no friends , was not for me to decide : a glass of brandy was called for : a common gill , enough to warm a poor man in a cold morning , was ...
Página 37
... turn . Hear with patience , and answer with precision . Inattention is ill manners : it shews contempt ; and contempt is never forgiven . Trouble not the company with your own private concerns , as you do not love to be troubled with ...
... turn . Hear with patience , and answer with precision . Inattention is ill manners : it shews contempt ; and contempt is never forgiven . Trouble not the company with your own private concerns , as you do not love to be troubled with ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance amusement appear Aristophanes attention beauties biped BISHOP HORNE called cerns character church common consider conversation custom discovered dress duction elegant endeavour entertainment epitaphs fashion favour FRANCIS GROSE frequently furnish gentleman give gratify happiness Harriet honour hope human humour Iliad indulge inform irreligion John Bull kind knowledge lady laugh learned Lemuel Gulliver lest letter libertine ligion live Lord Magdalen College mankind manners means melancholy Menander ment Merton College mind MONRO moral morning morphosis nature neighbours neral never newspaper object obliged observed occasion OLLA PODRIDA opinion panegyrist paper perhaps person perused pleasure PODRIDA politeness Pompey present proper racter readers reason refined religion remarks ridicule rience SATURDAY sermon sinecure species spect suppose taste thing thought tion travellers truth vice virtue whilst wish writings
Passagens conhecidas
Página 236 - While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 236 - ... by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who ; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note. While greasy Joan doth keel the pot...
Página 154 - A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality.
Página 46 - If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time: we expose our life to a Quotidian Ague of frigid impertinences, which would make a wise man tremble to think of.
Página 139 - Each element partakes our scatter'd spoils ; As nature, wide, our ruins spread : man's death Inhabits all things, but the thought of man. Nor man alone ; his breathing bust expires, His tomb is mortal; empires die. Where, now, The Roman ? Greek? They stalk, an empty name ! Yet few regard them in this useful light; Though half our learning is their epitaph.
Página 86 - Above them all the archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek; but under brows .Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge; cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Página 64 - The folds shall be full of sheep ; the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.
Página 71 - ... disagreeable in the sight of him who made us. It argues a sensibility of heart, a tenderness of conscience, and the fear of God. Let him who finds it not in himself beware, lest, in flying from superstition, he fall into irreligion and profaneness. That persons of eminent talents and attainments in literature, have been often complained of as dogmatical, boisterous, and inattentive to the rules of good breeding, is well known.
Página 37 - Inattention is ill manners: it shews contempt; and contempt is never forgiven. Trouble not the company with your own private concerns, as you do not love to be troubled with those of others. Yours are as little to them, as theirs are to you. You will need no other rule, whereby to judge of this matter.
Página 14 - Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one: "Ah! let me, let me go where sorrow calls; I, only I, will issue from your walls (Guide or companion, friends! I ask ye none), And bow before the murderer of my son.