Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, 2 tomasBancroft & Holley, 1836 |
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Thirty Years Ago– Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, 2 tomas William Dunlap Visos knygos peržiūra - 1836 |
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actors admiration Alcort Allen appeared battle of Trenton Beaglehole beauty blackguard brandy Broadway called Captain John Smith Captain Smith cause CHAPTER circumstances Colonel companions Cooke's Cooper counting-house creature Davenport death disease Doctor door dress duty Eliza Atherton Emma Portland Epsom evil eyes face fard father fear feelings fellow felt fire gentleman George Frederick Cooke hand happy hear heard Henry Johnson hero Hilson honour hope husband imagination intemperance John Smith Kent knew lady laugh light Littlejohn looked marriage mean mind misery Miss Atherton mother never New-York night offended passed person poor present racter scene seen silent sister sleep smile snow Spif Spiff stage stood street suffering suppose switchel tell theatre thing thought tion told took tragedian Trusty truth unhappy voice watch watchman wife Williams wish words young youth Zebediah Spiffard
Populiarios ištraukos
177 psl. - Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
129 psl. - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
91 psl. - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
171 psl. - It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell; It is, perhaps, that sauncing bell That tolls all into heaven or hell; And this is love, as I hear tell.
207 psl. - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
177 psl. - Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.
119 psl. - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
129 psl. - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
145 psl. - Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
91 psl. - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
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