A Lift for the LazyPutnam, 1849 - 195 páginas |
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adopted advertisement afterwards applied Bible Book of Chronicles called carats cause celebrated century Chance Medley character Charles church climacterical color corruption court denote derived distinguished Duke edition Edom England English epoch expression Falstaff father florins formerly France French gives grain Greek guineas hand head hear Henry VIII History horses Hudibras hundred instance invented Italian Italy Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter literally literary London look Lord Louis XIV manner Masaniello meaning ment modern n'en name given night originally Paris persons phrase Pictures in Hamlet play pocket Pope possession Prince printed Proverbs purchased reign remark rhyme Roman Rome Saxon says sense Shakspere's signifies singular Sir John Oldcastle sold sometimes Sonnet Spanish Spanish dollar species speech style supposed taken tells term tion tulipomania tulips verse whence witness word written
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Página 144 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Página 76 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Página 143 - ... look or gesture passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Página 83 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Página 39 - you will have every word that is spoken here by gentlemen misrepresented by fellows who thrust themselves into our gallery: you will have the speeches of the House every day printed, even during your session, and we shall be looked upon as the most contemptible assembly on the face of the earth...
Página 91 - ... ever less employed ; for the same reason they chose the fourth finger, which is not only less used than either of the rest, but is more capable of preserving a ring from bruises, having this one quality peculiar to itself, that it cannot be extended but in company with some other finger, whereas the rest may be singly stretched to their full length and straightness.
Página 155 - Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, And I will comment upon that offence : Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt j Against thy reasons making no defence.
Página 69 - In a lottery in which no prize exceeded twenty pounds, though in other respects it approached much nearer to a perfectly fair one than the common state lotteries, there would not be the same demand for tickets. In order to have a better chance for some of the great prizes, some people purchase several tickets, and others, small shares in a still greater number. There is not, however, a more certain proposition in mathematicks, than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are...
Página 161 - At the time when men first adopted the lion as the emblem of courage," says that intelligent traveller, Mr Burchell, " it would seem that they regarded great size and strength as indicating it ; but they were greatly mistaken in the character they have given to this indolent, skulking animal, and have overlooked a much better example of courage, and of other virtues also, in the bold and faithful dog.
Página 88 - is called his castle. Why ? Because it is surrounded by a moat, or defended by a wall ? No. It may be a straw-built hut; the wind may whistle around it, the rain may enter it, but the king cannot.