Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present CenturiesR. Griffin, 1857 - Počet stran: 496 |
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Strana 25 - and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoake of the pit that is
Strana 290 - usually entered about two o'clock, to study the news of the day in the pages of the Courier. The gallant Captain frequently indulged, like Othello, in speaking "Of moving incidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Strana 308 - famous ancient monarch of Britain, of whom the old ballad thus speaks— " Old King Coul Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he! And he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three!
Strana 160 - And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful:
Strana 308 - And a merry old soul was he! And he called for his pipe, And he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three!
Strana 291 - no mo! And in spite of all that Cleghorn and Corkimlale could do, It was plain, from twenty symptoms, that death was in his view: So the Captain made his test'ment, and submitted to his foe; And we laid him by the Kam's-horn
Strana 40 - You can be of no service to me; go to the soldiers, to whom you may be useful." "You know," said he to his friend Colonel Anderson, " that I have always wished to die this way. 1 hope the people of England will be satisfied.
Strana 25 - not reason, then, to be ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received, and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof,
Strana 7 - above, partrages at tope. There was an eating posset in the middle of the table, with dried fruits and sweetmeats at the sides. When they had finished their supper, the meat was removed, and in a moment everybody flew to the sweetmeats to pocket them; upon which a
Strana 215 - captain eke was he, Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have