Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?].G.Nicholson and Company, 1795 |
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... Sir Thomas Friendly , who lives about two miles distant , is a baronet , with about two thousand pounds a year estate , joining to that I purchased ; he has two sons , and five daughters , all grown up , and living with their mother and ...
... Sir Thomas Friendly , who lives about two miles distant , is a baronet , with about two thousand pounds a year estate , joining to that I purchased ; he has two sons , and five daughters , all grown up , and living with their mother and ...
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... Sir Thomas , who had followed close at my heels , to be the Nomenclator of the fam ily . The confusion this occasioned in me is hardly to be conceived , since none but bashful men can judge of my distress , and of that description the ...
... Sir Thomas , who had followed close at my heels , to be the Nomenclator of the fam ily . The confusion this occasioned in me is hardly to be conceived , since none but bashful men can judge of my distress , and of that description the ...
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... Sir Thomas had disguised his torture , when I trod upon his toe , I firmly bore my pain in silence , and sat with my lower extremities parboiled , amidst the stifled giggling of the ladies and the servants . I will not relate the sever ...
... Sir Thomas had disguised his torture , when I trod upon his toe , I firmly bore my pain in silence , and sat with my lower extremities parboiled , amidst the stifled giggling of the ladies and the servants . I will not relate the sever ...
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... Sir Thomas and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune , and each advised a different application ; one recommended oil , another water , but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought ...
... Sir Thomas and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune , and each advised a different application ; one recommended oil , another water , but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out the fire ; and a glass of sherry was brought ...
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Page 2 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm disclose, with orifice Wide, discontinuous ; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Page 4 - I whipped the pudding into my mouth, hot as a burning coal. It was impossible to conceal my agony; my eyes were starting from their sockets. At last, in spite of shame and resolution, I was obliged to drop the cause of torment on my plate. Sir Thomas and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune, and each advised a different application. One recommended oil, another water; but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out fire; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard, which I snatched...
Page 1 - I fell upon my knees, begged his worship's pardon, and began to give a full account of all that I knew of my breed, seed, and generation; but, though I gave a very...