The Retrospective Review, 1–2. köideJ. R. Smith, 1853 Consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old books. |
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... drink . Fleet . Verily , Sirs , this health - drinking savoureth of monarchy , and is a type of malignancy . War . Bread , my lord ! no preaching o'er yar liquor ; wee's now for a cup o ' th ' creature . Cob . In a gadly way you may ...
... drink . Fleet . Verily , Sirs , this health - drinking savoureth of monarchy , and is a type of malignancy . War . Bread , my lord ! no preaching o'er yar liquor ; wee's now for a cup o ' th ' creature . Cob . In a gadly way you may ...
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... Drinks . Frien . And tell you how much bigger the Louvre is than Whitehall ; buy a suit à - la - mode , get a ... drink with your honours ; where , after some opprobrious words given him , Justice Dullman and Justice Boozer struck ...
... Drinks . Frien . And tell you how much bigger the Louvre is than Whitehall ; buy a suit à - la - mode , get a ... drink with your honours ; where , after some opprobrious words given him , Justice Dullman and Justice Boozer struck ...
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... drink to the gentleman , and put it up . Tim . Sir , my service to you ; I am heartily sorry for what's passed , but it was in my drink . [ Drinks . Whim . You hear his acknowledgment , sir , and when he's sober he never quarrels . Come ...
... drink to the gentleman , and put it up . Tim . Sir , my service to you ; I am heartily sorry for what's passed , but it was in my drink . [ Drinks . Whim . You hear his acknowledgment , sir , and when he's sober he never quarrels . Come ...
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... drinks under your beer - glass ; your citizens ' wives simper and sip , and will be drunk without doing credit to the ... drink hard , sir ? Har . According to their quality , sir , more or less ; the greater the quality the more profuse ...
... drinks under your beer - glass ; your citizens ' wives simper and sip , and will be drunk without doing credit to the ... drink hard , sir ? Har . According to their quality , sir , more or less ; the greater the quality the more profuse ...
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... drink , and borrow as long as any rooking citizen will lend , till having dearly purchased the heroic title of a bully or a sharper , they live pitied of their friends , and despised of their whores , and depart this transitory world ...
... drink , and borrow as long as any rooking citizen will lend , till having dearly purchased the heroic title of a bully or a sharper , they live pitied of their friends , and despised of their whores , and depart this transitory world ...
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Page 92 - ... before you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors that exposed them, even those are now offered to your view cured and perfect of their limbs, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them...
Page 91 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 385 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 344 - Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
Page 161 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie." 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was пае stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee, For a' the blude that's shed on earth Hins through the springs o
Page 48 - Lero, lero, lilliburlero," that made an impression on the [King's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.
Page 118 - Son William, I am weary of the world. I would not live over my days again, if I could command them with a wish ; for the snares of life are greater than the fears of death.
Page 230 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high. The hard brands shiver on the steel, The...
Page 70 - English would wake, we might kill them all sleeping, I removed out of the way all the Guns and Hatchets : but my heart failing me, I put all things where they were again. The next day when we were to be burnt, our Master and some others spake for us, and the Evil was prevented in this place : And hereabouts we lay three Weeks together.
Page 206 - Non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei.