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Page 149
... Sir Simeon and Lady Bradshaw for a concert , fixed for the Monday week following . " We must go , by all means , Ierne , " said her sister ; " though concerts are in general stupid things enough , I expect we shall have great amusement ...
... Sir Simeon and Lady Bradshaw for a concert , fixed for the Monday week following . " We must go , by all means , Ierne , " said her sister ; " though concerts are in general stupid things enough , I expect we shall have great amusement ...
Page 150
... Sir Simeon and Lady Bradshaw . I must tell you a good story of them . You know she is constantly embellishing her conver- sation with boarding - school French , having been for some time at what they call a " ladies ' semi- nary ' at ...
... Sir Simeon and Lady Bradshaw . I must tell you a good story of them . You know she is constantly embellishing her conver- sation with boarding - school French , having been for some time at what they call a " ladies ' semi- nary ' at ...
Page 151
... Sir Simeon , ' have you locked the door for ? ' To keep de fou from going out , ' said the waiter ; ' your madame desire not by no mean to let you go out , and dere you must stay . ' Sir Simeon got furious , and threatened to smash the ...
... Sir Simeon , ' have you locked the door for ? ' To keep de fou from going out , ' said the waiter ; ' your madame desire not by no mean to let you go out , and dere you must stay . ' Sir Simeon got furious , and threatened to smash the ...
Page 190
... Lord Mayor , Sir Simeon Bradshaw , and another civic magistrate . The chief magistrate , Alderman Andrew Amber , was a brewer of eminence in the metro- polis ; his celebrated Pale Butt was placarded on every lamp - post and dead wall in ...
... Lord Mayor , Sir Simeon Bradshaw , and another civic magistrate . The chief magistrate , Alderman Andrew Amber , was a brewer of eminence in the metro- polis ; his celebrated Pale Butt was placarded on every lamp - post and dead wall in ...
Page 191
... Lord Mayor joining heartily in the laugh , while Sir Simeon declared he saw nothing in the state- ments to create amusement , they being very serious cases of cutting and maiming , as appeared from the eye of one complainant and the ...
... Lord Mayor joining heartily in the laugh , while Sir Simeon declared he saw nothing in the state- ments to create amusement , they being very serious cases of cutting and maiming , as appeared from the eye of one complainant and the ...
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Page 223 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Page 76 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 45 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 128 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 90 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 121 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 286 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 4 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 223 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 27 - But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ; His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling ; His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped And tugged for life, and was by strength subdued.