The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... hunter will not bend their way ; There the larch and the cypresses mournfully wave- Avoid that dread place - ' tis THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE ! BRISTLE AND LAPSTONE . A Burlesque on the Quarrel Scene 27 THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE. ...
... hunter will not bend their way ; There the larch and the cypresses mournfully wave- Avoid that dread place - ' tis THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE ! BRISTLE AND LAPSTONE . A Burlesque on the Quarrel Scene 27 THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE. ...
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Reciter. BRISTLE AND LAPSTONE . A Burlesque on the Quarrel Scene of " Edward and Warwick . " BRISTLE . Let me have no spunging coves ; above all , keep Lapstone from my sight ! LAPSTONE ( entering , throws off an old ironing blanket ...
Reciter. BRISTLE AND LAPSTONE . A Burlesque on the Quarrel Scene of " Edward and Warwick . " BRISTLE . Let me have no spunging coves ; above all , keep Lapstone from my sight ! LAPSTONE ( entering , throws off an old ironing blanket ...
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... Lapstone to do your dirty vork . BRIS . And vouldst thou then turn snitch on me ? If I have broke my nob and bilked my landlord , thank thy own adwisings , that urged me to it and got me into sich a line . LAP . I've been gammoned ...
... Lapstone to do your dirty vork . BRIS . And vouldst thou then turn snitch on me ? If I have broke my nob and bilked my landlord , thank thy own adwisings , that urged me to it and got me into sich a line . LAP . I've been gammoned ...
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... Lapstone , that he alone should hang his hat up there , and collar all her browns . I knowed not on your love . LAP . By jingo , that's a crammer , you knowed it all , and meanly had the check to tipple vith a veak unguarded voman ; to ...
... Lapstone , that he alone should hang his hat up there , and collar all her browns . I knowed not on your love . LAP . By jingo , that's a crammer , you knowed it all , and meanly had the check to tipple vith a veak unguarded voman ; to ...
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... Lapstone , ( Parody on Edward & Warwick ) , 28 Bullum versus Boatum , Bumpkin & Stable - keeper , 189 Case Altered , 160 Cat - o ' - nine - tails , the ; or , the School for Politeness , 73 Cato's Soliloquy , 235 Chance , 234 Chesnut ...
... Lapstone , ( Parody on Edward & Warwick ) , 28 Bullum versus Boatum , Bumpkin & Stable - keeper , 189 Case Altered , 160 Cat - o ' - nine - tails , the ; or , the School for Politeness , 73 Cato's Soliloquy , 235 Chance , 234 Chesnut ...
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Popular passages
Page 148 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an houourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 150 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 148 - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...
Page 237 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 163 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Page 237 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.
Page 202 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Page 209 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 206 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 238 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native, simple heart, Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art ? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm...