The Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1827 |
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Página 272 - Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble lords the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I do not fear to meet it single and alone.
Página 116 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Página 78 - Nay, you say true in that ; it's but a folly to lie : for to speak one thing, and to think just the contrary way, is, as it were, to look one way, and to row another.
Página 422 - WE are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers...
Página 351 - ... boards, et cetera, he immediately made the desired leap, and repeated it at least a dozen times, as much to his own, as to our satisfaction. On the first representation of The Caravan...
Página 331 - At these words arose, and advanced, 'the very head, and front of the offence,' and, likewise endeavouring to exculpate himself, energetically addressed the audience. The noisy discussion and the ridiculous criminations and vindications which ensued between these two grotesque, half dressed, half human beings, so amply rewarded George the Second and the spectators for the previous alarm, that loud and involuntary shouts of laughter from every part of the house acknowledged that the Centaur's head...
Página 92 - In the same way we may say that nothing is so absurd in matrimony as sullen silence. Reynolds, in his "Life and Times," tells of a free and easy person, who passed three festive days at the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of , without any invitation, convinced (as proved to be the case) that, my lord and my lady not being on speakini/ terms, each would suppose the other had asked him.
Página 154 - I ever witnessed. As the unprepared traveller approached the town, he was astonished to find almost all the surrounding ploughmen, gardeners, threshers, thatchers, and other labourers, attired in black coats, white waistcoats, black silk breeches and stockings, and the head of each " bien poudrb, frisc, etarrangi...
Página 326 - AN Irishman, swearing the peace against his three sons, thus concluded his affidavit : "And this deponent further saith, that the only one of his children who showed him any real filial affection was his youngest son Larry, for he never struck him when he was down ! " CMXCVIIL — THE RULING PASSION.