Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 1Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1837 - English literature |
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... DOCTOR , " said a young gentleman to Dean Swift , " I intend to set up for a wit . " " Then , " said the Doctor , " I advise you to sit down again . ” The anecdote is unratified by a name , for the young gentle- man continues to the ...
... DOCTOR , " said a young gentleman to Dean Swift , " I intend to set up for a wit . " " Then , " said the Doctor , " I advise you to sit down again . ” The anecdote is unratified by a name , for the young gentle- man continues to the ...
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... Doctor in wit , and somewhat purged of his grossness . In short , to all our periodical contemporaries we wish every happiness and success ; and for those among their contributors whose writings tend to amuse or instruct , —and many ...
... Doctor in wit , and somewhat purged of his grossness . In short , to all our periodical contemporaries we wish every happiness and success ; and for those among their contributors whose writings tend to amuse or instruct , —and many ...
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... Doctor Robert Willis , Mr. Reynolds , his brother dramatist , the present Earl Somers , and many other persons , who have since , like himself , become distinguished members of society . The account which Mr. Colman gives of his ...
... Doctor Robert Willis , Mr. Reynolds , his brother dramatist , the present Earl Somers , and many other persons , who have since , like himself , become distinguished members of society . The account which Mr. Colman gives of his ...
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... doctor bestowed a slight ungracious glance upon me , and , continuing the rotary motion of his head , renewed the previous conversation . Again there was a pause ; -again the anxious father , who had failed in his first effort , seized ...
... doctor bestowed a slight ungracious glance upon me , and , continuing the rotary motion of his head , renewed the previous conversation . Again there was a pause ; -again the anxious father , who had failed in his first effort , seized ...
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... doctor , and , lo ! on uncovering the shillings which had been dispersed , each beneath a separate hat , they were all found con- gregated under one . I was no politician at five years old , and , therefore , might not have wondered at ...
... doctor , and , lo ! on uncovering the shillings which had been dispersed , each beneath a separate hat , they were all found con- gregated under one . I was no politician at five years old , and , therefore , might not have wondered at ...
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Page 495 - I do despise my dream. Make less thy body, hence, and more thy grace ; Leave gormandizing ; know, the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men.
Page 446 - See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Page 552 - ... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets...
Page 552 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 535 - As we drove our prize at leisure, The king marched forth to catch us : His rage surpassed all measure, But his people could not match us. He fled to his hall-pillars ; And, ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off.
Page 524 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Page 551 - Thou seest, we are not all alone unhappy : This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. Jaq. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
Page 529 - Friars they search'd till dawn ; When the Sacristan saw, On crumpled claw, Come limping a poor little lame Jackdaw ! No longer gay, As on yesterday ; His feathers all...
Page 554 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony; all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Page 551 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them...