Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1author; and for sale, 1815 |
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Page 12
... poor indeed ; the walls old and rough , but the windows generally whole and clean ; no old hats or bundles of rags stuck in , as in America , where people build , but do not re- pair . Peeping in , as we pass along , the floors ap- pear ...
... poor indeed ; the walls old and rough , but the windows generally whole and clean ; no old hats or bundles of rags stuck in , as in America , where people build , but do not re- pair . Peeping in , as we pass along , the floors ap- pear ...
Page 13
... poor do not look so poor here as in other countries : that poverty does not intrude on your sight ; and that it is necessary to seek it . All human societies are full of it , - here it does not overflow certainly . One of the best ...
... poor do not look so poor here as in other countries : that poverty does not intrude on your sight ; and that it is necessary to seek it . All human societies are full of it , - here it does not overflow certainly . One of the best ...
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... poor and purplish . The heads , however , are fine in ge- neral : and these striking countenances , thus start- ing out of the canvas , put me in mind of the man in " Le Tableau Parlant , " who thrusts his living head through a hole in ...
... poor and purplish . The heads , however , are fine in ge- neral : and these striking countenances , thus start- ing out of the canvas , put me in mind of the man in " Le Tableau Parlant , " who thrusts his living head through a hole in ...
Page 49
... poor . There are advantages and disadvantages attending this custom . Among the first , the being more in- dependent of the noise , the dirt , the contagious disorders , or the danger of your neighbour's fires , and having a more ...
... poor . There are advantages and disadvantages attending this custom . Among the first , the being more in- dependent of the noise , the dirt , the contagious disorders , or the danger of your neighbour's fires , and having a more ...
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... poor wretch , leaving her wall , crawled to the table . " How is your catarrh ? ” " Please your honour , no offence I hope , it is the asthma . I have no rest night nor day , and " - " Ah , so it is an asthma ! It is somebody else who ...
... poor wretch , leaving her wall , crawled to the table . " How is your catarrh ? ” " Please your honour , no offence I hope , it is the asthma . I have no rest night nor day , and " - " Ah , so it is an asthma ! It is somebody else who ...
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Page 135 - Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? — What, will these hands ne'er be clean ? — No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Page 362 - ... know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Page 362 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 134 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Page 222 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and...
Page 133 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 25 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 133 - I have given suck; and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this.
Page 319 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Page iv - Longworth, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The Trust, a comedy, in five acts, by Charles Breck," in conformity to the act of the congress of the United States...