Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 29
... sure to pay it in the long - run : so it is with relations ; their merits may be obscured for a time , but ultimately they force them- selves upon our notice . I have recorded the instances of liberality which I have myself experienced ...
... sure to pay it in the long - run : so it is with relations ; their merits may be obscured for a time , but ultimately they force them- selves upon our notice . I have recorded the instances of liberality which I have myself experienced ...
Page 31
... sure of ulti- mate justice from the world , however his virtues may be for a time eclipsed . My neighbour Sir Toby Har- bottle always appeared to me to deserve the character universally assigned to him - that of an ignorant , drunken ...
... sure of ulti- mate justice from the world , however his virtues may be for a time eclipsed . My neighbour Sir Toby Har- bottle always appeared to me to deserve the character universally assigned to him - that of an ignorant , drunken ...
Page 33
... sure to tumble down at once A quart of liquid on his sconce . Our host and all his brother wits , Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When ...
... sure to tumble down at once A quart of liquid on his sconce . Our host and all his brother wits , Soon as they heard their victim's tramp , Who look'd half - drown'd , burst into fits , Which in fresh peals of laughter flamed , When ...
Page 61
... sure , give me a treat , when they enable me to shake my sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing ...
... sure , give me a treat , when they enable me to shake my sides at Grimaldi's jokes , and laugh the wrinkles out of my heart . Cares come with them , too , it must be admit- ted ; but it is better to have something to fear than nothing ...
Page 69
... Sure , I've the most forgetful head- And there's no time to air another ! So take one sheet from off your bed- And make a shift to - night with t'other . On Rose's part this was a ruse de guerre , To save th ' expense of washing half a ...
... Sure , I've the most forgetful head- And there's no time to air another ! So take one sheet from off your bed- And make a shift to - night with t'other . On Rose's part this was a ruse de guerre , To save th ' expense of washing half a ...
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