Memoirs of Bartholomew fair. Repr

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Frederick Warne and Company, 1874 - Počet stran: 404

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Strana 134 - Busy. Only pig was not comprehended in my admonition, the rest were: for long hair, it is an ensign of pride, a banner; and the world is full of those banners, very full of banners. And bottle-ale is a drink of Satan's, a diet-drink of Satan's, devised to puff us up, and make us swell in this latter age of vanity; as the smoke of tobacco, to keep us in mist and error...
Strana 279 - This is to give notice to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that at the...
Strana 125 - Verily, for the disease of longing, it is a disease, a carnal disease, or appetite, incident to women : and as it is carnal, and incident, it is natural, very natural.
Strana 107 - ... her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked ; her lips narrow ; and her teeth black (a defect the English seemsubject to, from their too great use of sugar) ; she had in her ears two pearls, with very rich drops ; she wore false hair, and that red...
Strana 107 - At these spectacles, and every where else, the English are constantly smoaking tobacco ; and in this manner : they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head.
Strana 164 - Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
Strana 324 - Gibber through the dark disguise. Pritchard, by Nature for the stage design'd, In person graceful, and in sense refin'd ; Her art as much as Nature's friend became, Her voice as free from blemish as her fame, Who knows so well in majesty to please, Attemper'd with the graceful charms of ease...
Strana 104 - Indian origin have been insinuating themselves into English ever since the end of the reign of Elizabeth and the beginning of that of King James...
Strana 125 - Surely, it may be otherwise, but it is subject to construction, subject, and hath a face of offence with the weak, a great face, a foul face; but that face may have a veil put over it, and be shadowed as it were; it may be eaten, and in the Pair, I take it, in a booth...
Strana 195 - And it is an excellent play ; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest.

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