Leaves from the Note-books of Lady Dorothy NevillMacmillan and Company, limited, 1907 - 359 էջ |
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Էջ 5 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Էջ 5 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home - taxes on the raw material - taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health - on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal - on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice - on...
Էջ 5 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Էջ 161 - Lepel flits past me in her chair, And Congreve's airs astound me ! And once Nell Gwynne, a frail young Sprite, Look'd kindly when I met her ; I shook my head, perhaps, — but quite Forgot to quite forget her.
Էջ 6 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Էջ 285 - Of all strumpets, fortune's the basest; 'twas fortune made me a soldier, a rogue in red, the grievance of the nation; fortune made the peace just when we were upon the brink of a war ; then fortune disbanded us, and lost us two months...
Էջ 179 - The above instrument, consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 0 ohn Forsythe, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Էջ 313 - People can't die, along the coast,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.
Էջ 340 - I have no resentment against them, nor against any one 'living. I shall never repine at their living happily in their ' own country after I am in possession of my kingdoms ; and ' should they fall into my power , upon any attempt for my 'restoration, I shall certainly not touch a hair of their 'heads...
Էջ 98 - Their burial place they quit, And soon to arms they stand. And at midnight, from his grave, The trumpeter arose ; And, mounted on his horse, A loud shrill blast he blows. On aery coursers then, The cavalry are seen, Old squadrons erst renowned, Gory and gashed, I ween.