Sketches and scraps, by Y.S.Simpkin, Marshall, 1854 - 103 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... witness — and , as his conversation is generally there as free and unreserved as with his morning friends , I cannot help thinking how low he would be in the esteem of his lady admirers , could they but know half their sayings as they ...
... witness — and , as his conversation is generally there as free and unreserved as with his morning friends , I cannot help thinking how low he would be in the esteem of his lady admirers , could they but know half their sayings as they ...
Pagina 40
... witnesses swoin , and sent up to the grand jury , whilst their " ludships " have gone to church . His next care is to find the barrister , to whom he is about to entrust the brief ; and what with cricketing and other pleasures , which ...
... witnesses swoin , and sent up to the grand jury , whilst their " ludships " have gone to church . His next care is to find the barrister , to whom he is about to entrust the brief ; and what with cricketing and other pleasures , which ...
Pagina 42
... witness ; money chinking in one place , gene rally at the clerk's table ; plaintiff and defendant quarrel- ling in another ; witnesses ' names called out in the hall ; cases called on in the court ; instructions for plaints here ...
... witness ; money chinking in one place , gene rally at the clerk's table ; plaintiff and defendant quarrel- ling in another ; witnesses ' names called out in the hall ; cases called on in the court ; instructions for plaints here ...
Pagina 93
... WITNESS . LAWYERS ! There's something repulsive in the very name . It reminds us of smoke - darkened ceilings , ink - spotted floors , dirty bare walls , rickety desks , mysterious green curtains , incomprehensible blue bags , musty ...
... WITNESS . LAWYERS ! There's something repulsive in the very name . It reminds us of smoke - darkened ceilings , ink - spotted floors , dirty bare walls , rickety desks , mysterious green curtains , incomprehensible blue bags , musty ...
Pagina 95
... witness ; so , being early , I had plenty of time to look about me . Over the judge's arm chair , placed with others ... witnesses , waiting to go before the grand jury . who sat in an adjoining room , the floor of which was an inclined ...
... witness ; so , being early , I had plenty of time to look about me . Over the judge's arm chair , placed with others ... witnesses , waiting to go before the grand jury . who sat in an adjoining room , the floor of which was an inclined ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 6 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.
Pagina 71 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Pagina 69 - A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, \ Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darken'd ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
Pagina 72 - Doth a man stutter, look a-squint, or halt ; — Mimics draw humour out of Nature's fault ; With personal defects their mirth adorn, And hang misfortunes out to public scorn. E'en I, whom Nature cast in hideous mould, Whom, having made, she trembled to behold, Beneath the load of mimicry may groan, And find that Nature's errors are my own.
Pagina 9 - These our actors • • • were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of a vision, The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like an unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Pagina 82 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed to take into consideration the propriety of taking measures for the civil and military protection of this colony.
Pagina 66 - Mensorem cohibent, Archyta, &c. SAY, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend, (Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end) Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail, That anxious thou from pole to pole didst sail ; Ere on thy chin the springing beard began To spread a doubtful down, and promise man...
Pagina 8 - Hamlet gives to the players, to " speak no more than is set down for them.
Pagina 70 - If but amusement were the end of life, One would not wonder at the eagerness With which the giddy multitude pursue The man amusive.