Hood's Own: Selected PapersG. P. Putnam, 1852 - 239 էջ |
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... — ( Thank Heav'n , I hear the carriage ! ) " What ! must you go ? next time I hope You'll give me longer measure ; Nay - I shall see you down the stairs- ( With most uncommon pleasure ! ) " Good - bye ! good - bye ! remember 29.
... — ( Thank Heav'n , I hear the carriage ! ) " What ! must you go ? next time I hope You'll give me longer measure ; Nay - I shall see you down the stairs- ( With most uncommon pleasure ! ) " Good - bye ! good - bye ! remember 29.
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... stairs , and tell him I'm alone . " Quickly the maid went tripping down the stair ; Thickly the heart of Rose Matilda beat ; " Sure he has brought me tickets for the play- Drury - or Covent Garden - darling man ! — Kemble will play - or ...
... stairs , and tell him I'm alone . " Quickly the maid went tripping down the stair ; Thickly the heart of Rose Matilda beat ; " Sure he has brought me tickets for the play- Drury - or Covent Garden - darling man ! — Kemble will play - or ...
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... stairs , they always hitched halfway at the angle . My luck invariably turned the corner . It could not bear to bate me a single bump . 17th . Had my eye picked out by a pavior who was aring his way , he didn't care where . Sent home in ...
... stairs , they always hitched halfway at the angle . My luck invariably turned the corner . It could not bear to bate me a single bump . 17th . Had my eye picked out by a pavior who was aring his way , he didn't care where . Sent home in ...
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... stair And Thomson's Castle , that of Indolence , Must be to me a castle in the air . SONNET . - A SOMNAMBULIST . " A change came o'er the spirit of my dream . " BYRON . METHOUGHT - for Fancy is the strangest gadder When sleep all homely ...
... stair And Thomson's Castle , that of Indolence , Must be to me a castle in the air . SONNET . - A SOMNAMBULIST . " A change came o'er the spirit of my dream . " BYRON . METHOUGHT - for Fancy is the strangest gadder When sleep all homely ...
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... stairs ; - " but I wish Captain Schenk had been killed at the battle of Leipzig , or had got a bed of glory anywhere else , before he came to be billeted on us ! " h CHAPTER II . In extenuation of so unchristian - like. " I'LL TAKE A BED ...
... stairs ; - " but I wish Captain Schenk had been killed at the battle of Leipzig , or had got a bed of glory anywhere else , before he came to be billeted on us ! " h CHAPTER II . In extenuation of so unchristian - like. " I'LL TAKE A BED ...
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Ball Barbadoes bean blessed BOATMAN called Cape lion Captain Schenk changes ring coach cried dance dear door ducks Ellen eyes face fancy Farewell favour give hactiv hand head heart Heaven honest Dietrich Honner horse Humphrey Jedidiah Johnson Jung Vrouw Juno lady land legs letter live look Lord Lorenzo luck Ma'am Madame Doppeldick maid Malchen Massa Amen master Miss Norman moon mouth Neptune never night Nore Number Old Bailey once Organised bands oysters Perryan Peter Stone Pompey POMPEY'S PILLAR pond poor postilion pray Priscian Quickset round Saint Ursula seem'd seemed short and long sitting solitude sort stairs stand stare stickle-back Stoke Pogis sure tail tell There's no Romance Thickset thing thought Thrice turn Twas village Vincent Ball waggon whilst window wish witch wonder words young Zounds
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Էջ 66 - OUR village, that's to say not Miss Mitford's village, but our village of Bullock Smithy, Is come into by an avenue of trees, three oak pollards, two elders, and a withy ; And in the middle, there's a green of about not exceeding an acre and a half; It's common to all, and fed off by nineteen cows, six ponies, three horses, five asses, two foals, seven pigs, and a calf! Besides a pond in the middle, as is held by a similar sort of common law lease, And contains twenty ducks, six drakes, three ganders,...
Էջ 102 - So, while I fondly imagined we were deceiving my relations, and flattered myself that I should outwit and incense them all — behold my hopes are to be crushed at once, by my aunt's consent and approbation — and I am myself the only dupe at last ! — [Walking about in a heat.] But here, sir, here is the picture...
Էջ 222 - Meeting. Dost thou love silence deep as that "before the winds were made?" go not out into the wilderness; descend not into the profundities of the earth; shut not up thy casements; nor pour wax into the little cells of thy ears, with little-faith'd, self-mistrusting Ulysses. Retire with me into a Quakers
Էջ 62 - NEVER go to France Unless you know the lingo, If you do, like me, You will repent by jingo. Staring like a fool, And silent as a mummy, There I stood alone, A nation with a dummy : II.
Էջ 29 - Twas very kind to bring them both, (What boots for my new Brussels!) What! little Clara left at home? Well now I call that shabby: I should have lov'd to kiss her so, (A flabby, dabby, babby!) And Mr S., I hope he's well, Ah!
Էջ 67 - There's a smithy of course, where that queer sort of a chap in his way, Old Joe Bradley, Perpetually hammers and stammers, for he stutters and shoes horses very badly. There's a shop of all sorts, that sells every thing, kept by the widow of Mr. Task ; But when you go there it's ten to one she's out of every thing you ask.
Էջ 29 - I REALLY take it very kind This visit, Mrs. Skinner! I have not seen you such an age — (The wretch has come to dinner!) ' • Your daughters, too, what loves of girls — What heads for painters