The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and WaggishD. Appleton, 1869 - 262 ページ |
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ancient animals ANTISTROPHE asked barrister beauty become better biped blind blind goddess celebrated character death delight dinner earth epicure equally evanescent evil exclaimed eyes fear feeling fool fortune French gentleman give hand happy head heart heaven Hibernian honor human imagine instance intellectual Jack Ketch Jack-o'-lantern JOHN LEECH king labor lady latter live look Lord Lord G Louisa Muhlbach Madame de Staël man's master mind moral mouth nation nature never object once opinion ourselves pain Pat Sullivan perhaps perpetually persons Pharisee Plato pleasant pleasure possess present reader reason religion replied rich Roman says seldom sense sometimes soul speak species Sydney Smith Tacitus tact talent Talleyrand taste Tertullian thing thou thought tion truth virtue Voltaire Waverley Novels whole wish word worth writer young
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32 ページ - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
247 ページ - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
79 ページ - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
131 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
131 ページ - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
102 ページ - The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
34 ページ - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
247 ページ - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
160 ページ - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
259 ページ - Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? This he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but because he was a thief, aud had the bag, and bare what was put therein.