Select British Classics, Tom 29J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... horse , and is possessed of some other qualifications which nobody can ever suspect , that a mind , the least given to ambition , would ever labour to acquire . For my part I am so far from agreeing with our satirist , that the love of ...
... horse , and is possessed of some other qualifications which nobody can ever suspect , that a mind , the least given to ambition , would ever labour to acquire . For my part I am so far from agreeing with our satirist , that the love of ...
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... horses , and game ; and who has every thing about him of a piece with his diversions . His hall must be adorned with stags heads , instead of busts and statues ; and in the room of family pic- tures , you will see prints of the most ...
... horses , and game ; and who has every thing about him of a piece with his diversions . His hall must be adorned with stags heads , instead of busts and statues ; and in the room of family pic- tures , you will see prints of the most ...
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tures , you will see prints of the most famous stallions and race - horses ; all his doors open and shut with foxes feet ; and even the buttons of his cloaths are impressed with the figures of dogs , foxes , stags , and horses . To this ...
tures , you will see prints of the most famous stallions and race - horses ; all his doors open and shut with foxes feet ; and even the buttons of his cloaths are impressed with the figures of dogs , foxes , stags , and horses . To this ...
Strona 41
... horse , I had the opportunity of surveying his whole appearance . He was wrapped up in an old thread - bare weather beaten surtout , which I believe had once been scarlet ; the cape was pulled over his head , and buttoned up close round ...
... horse , I had the opportunity of surveying his whole appearance . He was wrapped up in an old thread - bare weather beaten surtout , which I believe had once been scarlet ; the cape was pulled over his head , and buttoned up close round ...
Strona 44
... our reckoning with the landlady , we took leave of each other : but just as I had mounted my horse , and was going to set forward , my new acquaintance came up to me , and shaking me by the hand . " Hearke , says 44 THE CONNOISSEUR .
... our reckoning with the landlady , we took leave of each other : but just as I had mounted my horse , and was going to set forward , my new acquaintance came up to me , and shaking me by the hand . " Hearke , says 44 THE CONNOISSEUR .
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Strona 164 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Strona 165 - I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us ; who, when they met in the streets, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together ; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burthens, and take their leave.
Strona 48 - ... with thick crust, extremely baked. His table cost him not much, though it was good to eat at. "His sports supplied all but beef and mutton; except...
Strona 48 - ... hearth paved with brick lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick of fourteen inches long lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them.
Strona 70 - Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates : in the city she uttereth her words...
Strona 94 - twere vain to follow, For dog and horse he'd beat them hollow ; — Nay, if he put forth all his strength, Outstrip his brethren half a length. A tortoise heard his vain oration, And vented thus his indignation : " O puss ! it bodes thee dire disgrace When I defy thee to the race. Come, 'tis a match ; nay, no denial, I lay my shell upon the trial.
Strona 48 - ... that had been used. On one side of this end of the room was the door of a closet, wherein stood the strong beer and the wine, which never came...
Strona 23 - As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches...
Strona 47 - ... poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished; on a great hearth paved with brick, lay some terriers, and the choicest hounds and spaniels. Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of...
Strona 111 - Arthur's out of their estates, and to take in all the knowing-ones on the turf at Newmarket. He accordingly bespoke his liveries, settled the fashion of his chariot, and had already pitched upon the lady, whose good luck it should be to fall in love with him: but so uncertain is the state of a gamester, that since the drawing of the lottery he has advertised for charitable contributions to a distressed gentleman, who knows the world, and has had the honour to be intimate with most of the nobility...