The autocrat of the breakfast table, with an intr. by G.A. Sala |
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... suppose that my remarks made at this table are like so many postage - stamps , do you - each to be only once uttered ? If you do , you are mistaken . He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself . Imagine the author of ...
... suppose that my remarks made at this table are like so many postage - stamps , do you - each to be only once uttered ? If you do , you are mistaken . He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself . Imagine the author of ...
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... suppose it is about as common as the power of moving the ears volun- tarily , which is a moderately rare endowment . Little localised powers , and little narrow streaks of specialised knowledge , are things men are very apt to be ...
... suppose it is about as common as the power of moving the ears volun- tarily , which is a moderately rare endowment . Little localised powers , and little narrow streaks of specialised knowledge , are things men are very apt to be ...
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... suppose our dear didascalos , over there , ever read Poli Synopsis , or consulted Castelli Lexicon , while he was growing up to their stature ? Not he ; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever ...
... suppose our dear didascalos , over there , ever read Poli Synopsis , or consulted Castelli Lexicon , while he was growing up to their stature ? Not he ; but virtue passed through the hem of their parchment and leather garments whenever ...
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... suppose that all these things I have reported were said at any one breakfast - time . I have not taken the trouble to date them , as Raspail père used to date every proof he sent to the printer ; but they were scattered over several ...
... suppose that all these things I have reported were said at any one breakfast - time . I have not taken the trouble to date them , as Raspail père used to date every proof he sent to the printer ; but they were scattered over several ...
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... suppose the real John to be old , dull , and ill - looking . But as the Higher Powers have not con- ferred on men the gift of seeing themselves in the true light , John very possibly conceives himself to be youthful , witty , and fasci ...
... suppose the real John to be old , dull , and ill - looking . But as the Higher Powers have not con- ferred on men the gift of seeing themselves in the true light , John very possibly conceives himself to be youthful , witty , and fasci ...
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Page 194 - Fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 193 - Last of its timber, — they couldn't sell 'em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.
Page 78 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 193 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown . — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T" make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 78 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 231 - O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow. O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his cordial wine...
Page 204 - I always thought cold victual nice,— My choice would be vanilla-ice, I care not much for gold or land ; Give me a mortgage here and there. Some good bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.
Page 26 - When legislators keep the law, When banks dispense with bolts and locks, When berries, whortle-, rasp-, and straw-, Grow bigger downwards through the box, — When he that selleth house or land Shows leak in roof or flaw in right, — When haberdashers choose the stand Whose window hath the broadest light...
Page 98 - He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Page 194 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out \ First of November, Fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive.