The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous ... : Drawn from the Life, Volum 2Methuen, 1826 |
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Side 13
... give considerable effect to an otherwise interesting countenance . A few years since she had a penchant for the stage , and played repeatedly at one of the minor theatres , under the name of " The Lady ; " a character Clara can , when ...
... give considerable effect to an otherwise interesting countenance . A few years since she had a penchant for the stage , and played repeatedly at one of the minor theatres , under the name of " The Lady ; " a character Clara can , when ...
Side 19
... gives her grand parties , and lives proportionably expensive and elegant ; yet with all this she has taken care that the age of gold may succeed to the age of brass , that the retirement of her latter days may not be overclouded by the ...
... gives her grand parties , and lives proportionably expensive and elegant ; yet with all this she has taken care that the age of gold may succeed to the age of brass , that the retirement of her latter days may not be overclouded by the ...
Side 23
... ought to be playfully satirical . Forgive me , gentle reader , if from the collapse of the spirit , I have for a moment turned aside from the natural gaiety of my style , to give utterance to the warm feelings of THE WAKE 23.
... ought to be playfully satirical . Forgive me , gentle reader , if from the collapse of the spirit , I have for a moment turned aside from the natural gaiety of my style , to give utterance to the warm feelings of THE WAKE 23.
Side 24
... give utterance to the warm feelings of an eccentric but generous heart . But , allons to the wake . 99.66 " Plaze ye'r honor , " said Barney O'Finn ( my groom of the chambers ) , " may I be axing a holiday to- night ? " " It will be ...
... give utterance to the warm feelings of an eccentric but generous heart . But , allons to the wake . 99.66 " Plaze ye'r honor , " said Barney O'Finn ( my groom of the chambers ) , " may I be axing a holiday to- night ? " " It will be ...
Side 28
... give ad- ditional solemnity to the scene . There is something very awful in the contemplation of death , from which not even the strongest mind can altogether divest itself . But at a wake the solemn gloom which generally pervades the ...
... give ad- ditional solemnity to the scene . There is something very awful in the contemplation of death , from which not even the strongest mind can altogether divest itself . But at a wake the solemn gloom which generally pervades the ...
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Side 270 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Side 278 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Side 277 - Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears Were like a better way: those happy smilets That play'd on her ripe lip seem'd not to know What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropp'd.