The Metropolitan, Volume 16James Cochrane, 1836 |
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... Bill Spurey had to repeat to the ship's company the legend of his coming on board over and over again . The only persons who appeared not to have lost their courage were Jemmy Ducks and poor Smallbones , who had been put in his hammock ...
... Bill Spurey had to repeat to the ship's company the legend of his coming on board over and over again . The only persons who appeared not to have lost their courage were Jemmy Ducks and poor Smallbones , who had been put in his hammock ...
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... bill . For all the com- mon purposes of life it has superseded every other . Our newspapers are full of it from beginning to end . Narrative , advertisements , speeches , every thing is done in it . Every orator , in our days , is ...
... bill . For all the com- mon purposes of life it has superseded every other . Our newspapers are full of it from beginning to end . Narrative , advertisements , speeches , every thing is done in it . Every orator , in our days , is ...
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... bill , and going to the cab , let us just examine their externals , which , being collated and concocted with the above dicta , may induce a fair conjecture as to the penetralia . Captain Stewart's back being to- wards us , we can only ...
... bill , and going to the cab , let us just examine their externals , which , being collated and concocted with the above dicta , may induce a fair conjecture as to the penetralia . Captain Stewart's back being to- wards us , we can only ...
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... bill passed . I then inquired how it was with a disease of this nature that a man could make such long speeches as ... bills of exchange for 3331. 6s . 8d . each . I shall first relate the history of the case , as I think it a useful one ...
... bill passed . I then inquired how it was with a disease of this nature that a man could make such long speeches as ... bills of exchange for 3331. 6s . 8d . each . I shall first relate the history of the case , as I think it a useful one ...
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... bill became due . Now the dénouement of the plot developed itself ' ; a new performer in the drama was introduced , namely , a stranger , who represented himself as a respectable tradesman , and the holder of the three bills for which ...
... bill became due . Now the dénouement of the plot developed itself ' ; a new performer in the drama was introduced , namely , a stranger , who represented himself as a respectable tradesman , and the holder of the three bills for which ...
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amusing appeared arms beautiful better Bill blood boat body cabin called Captain character chyle chyme clever Corporal Van Spitter dear deck door earl Easy Edward Lytton England English exclaimed eyes father favour fear feelings gastric juice Gavel gentleman Geoffrey Rudel Gipsy King give hand head heart Hohenfels honour hour House Ille-ego improvements Jemmy Jugurtha Julien king Lady Jane Lancashire Leopoldine look Lord Altamont Lordships manner matter ment Middlesex mind Miss Moggy months morning motion Nancy nature never night observed Old Bailey pain passed Pedestres person phrenology poor Port Admiral present princess pyloric valve racter reader replied Rosabelle round Scotland SENSIBILITY Smallbones smile Snarleyyow soon soul spirit Street thing thou thought tion took turned Vanslyperken vessel walk Warwickshire whole widow wish woman words young
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Página 118 - Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 82 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 118 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 98 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Página 327 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 253 - ... entirely apprehended by his hearer. There was sometimes an obvious struggle to do this to his own satisfaction ; he seemed labouring to drag his thought to light from its deep lurking-place ; and, with...
Página 71 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 247 - Snug the Joiner is the moral man of the piece, who proceeds by measurement and discretion in all things. You see him with his rule and compasses in his hand. " Have you the lion's part written ? Pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
Página 71 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name ! Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Página 103 - Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket), 'that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a pressgang came and stole her husband from her; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did!