Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?].G.Nicholson and Company, 1795 |
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... happy fetch , if any such might occur , for helping him out of the dismal limbo he was in : He was not long to seek for the cause of his misfortune ; T his adventure with the barefooted friars was a ready solution NIICOLAS PEDROSA .
... happy fetch , if any such might occur , for helping him out of the dismal limbo he was in : He was not long to seek for the cause of his misfortune ; T his adventure with the barefooted friars was a ready solution NIICOLAS PEDROSA .
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... happy oment , and pointing his course towards the bridge Toledo , which proudly strides with half a dozen fly arches over a stream scarce three feet wide , he und himself as completely in a desart in half a ile's riding , as if he had ...
... happy oment , and pointing his course towards the bridge Toledo , which proudly strides with half a dozen fly arches over a stream scarce three feet wide , he und himself as completely in a desart in half a ile's riding , as if he had ...
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... happy moments he had experienced for a long time past , and being lively good - humoured little fellow , and one tha touched the guitar and sung sequidillas with a tole able grace , he soon recommended himself to his ship mates , and ...
... happy moments he had experienced for a long time past , and being lively good - humoured little fellow , and one tha touched the guitar and sung sequidillas with a tole able grace , he soon recommended himself to his ship mates , and ...
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... happy , viz . a learned education . - I was sent to a country grammar - school , and from thence to the university , with a view of qualifying for holy orders . Here , having but small allowance from my father , and being naturally of a ...
... happy , viz . a learned education . - I was sent to a country grammar - school , and from thence to the university , with a view of qualifying for holy orders . Here , having but small allowance from my father , and being naturally of a ...
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... happy in short , he had brought over with him the enormous sum of thirty thousand pounds , and upon this he built his hopes of never - ending happiness . While he was planning schemes of greatness and delight , whether the change of ...
... happy in short , he had brought over with him the enormous sum of thirty thousand pounds , and upon this he built his hopes of never - ending happiness . While he was planning schemes of greatness and delight , whether the change of ...
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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...