Bath Characters, Or, Sketches from LifeG. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1807 - 80 pages |
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... patient Lady Choleric , who has just ruptured a blood vessel in giving her daily scolding to her Abigail . But what a blessed season is this , my dear boy ! A beautiful Scotch mist for twenty - eight days ' successively ; with the wind ...
... patient Lady Choleric , who has just ruptured a blood vessel in giving her daily scolding to her Abigail . But what a blessed season is this , my dear boy ! A beautiful Scotch mist for twenty - eight days ' successively ; with the wind ...
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... good reason , I think . - Adad , sir , for what I know you may have killed a patient of mine ; and I stand a good chance , not only of lopsing all my business ( however that's a trifle ) , but of being hanged for a murder 37.
... good reason , I think . - Adad , sir , for what I know you may have killed a patient of mine ; and I stand a good chance , not only of lopsing all my business ( however that's a trifle ) , but of being hanged for a murder 37.
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... patient tips off , and nobody is ever the wiser about the cause of his exit . Besides , had the old lady slept her last , there would have been no great reason for your distressing yourself on the occasion . It was high time for her to ...
... patient tips off , and nobody is ever the wiser about the cause of his exit . Besides , had the old lady slept her last , there would have been no great reason for your distressing yourself on the occasion . It was high time for her to ...
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... patient made the accident a matter of the highest importance . - Why , she's as well known as the obelisk in Queen's - square ; and her death would have broken up one of the most regular and elegant card - assemblies in all Bath . You ...
... patient made the accident a matter of the highest importance . - Why , she's as well known as the obelisk in Queen's - square ; and her death would have broken up one of the most regular and elegant card - assemblies in all Bath . You ...
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... your Lady- ship won't forget that you renounced hearts . " - Up marched I to the patient , with a palpitating heart . She was black in the face as my hat ; foaming at the 66 G Falkner Засел mouth like a cask of new beer ; hands 41.
... your Lady- ship won't forget that you renounced hearts . " - Up marched I to the patient , with a palpitating heart . She was black in the face as my hat ; foaming at the 66 G Falkner Засел mouth like a cask of new beer ; hands 41.
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Page 22 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank/ and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 15 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns, the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
Page 8 - There was a time, indeed, when I made a figure with the sex, and could select from my list of conquests a fair specimen of every degree of rank, from the duchess to the spouse of the Squire.
Page 8 - Jack ! all my credit for successful gallantry has been extinguished, and my ardour in the chase been gradually evaporating, ever since that very unseasonable phlebotomical operation, which was performed upon me by Dick Merryman, some years ago. A little Linnet, you know, was the subject of our dispute. We went out to settle it; he pinked my doublet as full of holes as a school-girl's sampler, and completed my obligations to him by carrying off the bird to his own nest. — But, d— n it, don't make...
Page 75 - Saviour, may, notwithstanding their differences upon points of doubtful opinion and in the forms of external worship, still be united in the bonds of Christian charity, and fulfil thy blessed Son's commandment of loving one another as he has loved them.
Page 8 - ... the chase been gradually evaporating, ever since that very unseasonable phlebotomical operation, which was performed upon me by Dick Merryman, some years ago. A little Linnet, you know, was the subject of our dispute. We went out to settle it; he pinked my doublet as full of holes as a school-girl's sampler, and completed my obligations to him by carrying off the bird to his own nest. — But, d— n it, don't make me melancholy by recalling past grievances to my recollection. — I'd fain turn...
Page 31 - I must candidly acknowledge that I am acquainted with no place of worship which is so well calculated for genteel people to say their prayers in as your chapel. Here is every contrivance for warmth, ease, and repose; and the company is select, wellbred, and well-dressed. In general, too, the mode of performing the service is graceful, agreeable, and judicious. No violence ; no scolding; no terrifying stories about hell and the devil, as one meets with in vulgar parish churches ; but a gentlemanly...
Page 80 - This probably meant no more than that the intending prosecutor belonged to the diocese of Lincoln, and that the Bishop might be relied upon to take the part of his clergy. There is nothing whatever in the Bishop's character to which the satirist takes exception. RMG 1 369-— Homers