The Miseries of Human Life; Or The Groans of Timothy Testy, and Samuel Sensitive: With a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy. In Twelve DialoguesWilliam Miller, 1806 - 361 ページ |
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... hands must shortly cease to trace the names of TIMOTHY TESTY , SAMUEL SENSITIVE . * * The above address , written by Mr. Sensitive , was heartily subscribed by his companion . TABLE OF CONTENTS . DIALOGUE THE FIRST . Introduction of.
... hands must shortly cease to trace the names of TIMOTHY TESTY , SAMUEL SENSITIVE . * * The above address , written by Mr. Sensitive , was heartily subscribed by his companion . TABLE OF CONTENTS . DIALOGUE THE FIRST . Introduction of.
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... hand at an opinion , without a mind , I should say , that till Mind , aforesaid , can shake off this unaccountable weakness , it may as well , at once , give up the double- refined fancy of always leaving poor body in the basket . I ...
... hand at an opinion , without a mind , I should say , that till Mind , aforesaid , can shake off this unaccountable weakness , it may as well , at once , give up the double- refined fancy of always leaving poor body in the basket . I ...
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... hand is in ; or I may chance to fall asleep in the middle of your harangue , being not over - fond of long speeches , unless they are well salted and peppered . — Come , push on . Sen. Be under no alarm , Sir ; I am not in a lenient ...
... hand is in ; or I may chance to fall asleep in the middle of your harangue , being not over - fond of long speeches , unless they are well salted and peppered . — Come , push on . Sen. Be under no alarm , Sir ; I am not in a lenient ...
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... hands , that will bury me in the country a long time ; and , I doubt not , " miseries " of all sorts and sizes will turn up as plentifully as the dust , or mire , under my feet . And so , having now pretty well settled all our ...
... hands , that will bury me in the country a long time ; and , I doubt not , " miseries " of all sorts and sizes will turn up as plentifully as the dust , or mire , under my feet . And so , having now pretty well settled all our ...
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... dying ) scene of the tragedy , —that of deliberately cramming first one , and then the other clogged polluted foot into its choaked - up - shoe , after having scavengered your hands and gloves in MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE . 27.
... dying ) scene of the tragedy , —that of deliberately cramming first one , and then the other clogged polluted foot into its choaked - up - shoe , after having scavengered your hands and gloves in MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE . 27.
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arrival attempt begin blotting paper breaking brother called carriage coach cold comfort confess DIALOGUE dinner discovering Ditto door dressed ears endeavouring eyes fancy favourite feel finding fingers fire foot gemens going GROAN half hand head hear hope horror horse hour journey Junior-Sensitive junr Juvenal keep ladies late leave lected length London malè ment mind minuet MISERIES OF HUMAN misery morning morning call nails Ned Tes neque nerves never night nihil nose obliged once Ovid paper party passing perpetually person poker poor rascal reading recollect rest Samuel Senior and Junior-Sensitive Senior and Junior.-Sensitive senr Sensitive servant Shak shews side silence suddenly tell Testy Testy's thing throw tion tu quoque turn violent Virg Virgil walk whole wind word worse wou'd wretched
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132 ページ - Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus ; crudelis tu quoque, mater : crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille? improbus ille puer; crudelis tu quoque, mater.
323 ページ - For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
109 ページ - Miss in an old-fashioned riding-dress ; both figures partly colored and partly plain ; or a goggling wax queen, bolt upright in a deep glass case, among the minikin pillars of a tawdry temple, wreathed with red foil, tinsel, and green varnished leaves ; or the map of England, with only about four counties, and no towns in it, worked in a sampler by the landlady's youngest daughter,
95 ページ - In the pit, at the opera — turning briskly round, on hearing a box-door open close by you, in hopes of feasting your eyes on some young angel whom you expect to appear, and beholding, instead of her, that sort of hideous old crabbed-looking Crone of fashion, whose face is as tull of wrinkles, as her head is of diamonds.
304 ページ - ... 16. At a ball; — when you have set your heart on dancing with a particular favourite, — at the moment when you delightedly see him advancing towards you, being briskly accosted by a conceited simpleton at your elbow, whom you cannot endure, but who obtains (because you know not in what manner to refuse) ' the honour of your hand
34 ページ - While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been only singing all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed !— if / had •been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment, " Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas,...
146 ページ - A chaise window-glass, that will not be put down when it is np, nor up when it is down. Tearing your throat to rags in abortive efforts to call back a person who has just left you, and with whom you have forgotten to touch on one of the most important subjects which you met to discuss. After having left a company in which you have been galled by the raillery of some wag by profession, thinking, at your leisure, of a repartee, which, if discharged at the proper moment, would have blown him to atoms....
131 ページ - Beast is fairly slung in, and (after about a quarter of an hour consumed in the operation,) plunged down and bedded, with the squelch of a falling Ox, and the grunt of a Rhinoceros, — you find yourself suddenly viced in, from the shoulder to the hip ; upon which the Monster, — when, in another quarter of an hour, he has finally pumped, and panted, and snortled himself into tranquillity, —begins to make himself merry with your Misery, and keeps braying away, — totally callous to the dumb frowns,...
55 ページ - Go to the devil and shake yourself,' or any other such frolicsome tune, and the heart-sinking apprehensions under which you instantly tear down the dance, and keep rousing all the rest of the couples (who, having taken no ice, can afford to move with less spirit) — incessantly vociferating, as you ramp and gallop along, ' Hands across, sir, for heaven's sake.
265 ページ - Out, damned spot ! out, I say ! — One ; two : why, then 'tis time to do't. — 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.