Dog and DuckA.A. Knopf, 1924 - Всего страниц: 226 |
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... perhaps ; but only by a few initiates . So I dare say that many of my readers will not even have heard of the game of Dog and Duck . Yet , within ten minutes ' walk of Lords , the faithful few know where to find the headquarters of the ...
... perhaps ; but only by a few initiates . So I dare say that many of my readers will not even have heard of the game of Dog and Duck . Yet , within ten minutes ' walk of Lords , the faithful few know where to find the headquarters of the ...
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... perhaps to Chace IV , the Duck , and a score of forty . The supercilious beginner comes to grief over Walls ; Bocardo is the terror of the experienced player . Old James Henry Messiter , who in- vented the " railway service , " used to ...
... perhaps to Chace IV , the Duck , and a score of forty . The supercilious beginner comes to grief over Walls ; Bocardo is the terror of the experienced player . Old James Henry Messiter , who in- vented the " railway service , " used to ...
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... perhaps , is our grave English contribution to the feast . We speak of a " Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year , " and I be- lieve that no Englishman is quite all mirth as the clock begins to strike midnight on December 31st . He may ...
... perhaps , is our grave English contribution to the feast . We speak of a " Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year , " and I be- lieve that no Englishman is quite all mirth as the clock begins to strike midnight on December 31st . He may ...
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... perhaps ; but those were hearty days . The butcher boy , in particular , was an ir- resistible and an easy mark . Here was opportu- nity for the red pigment , and plenty of it . The poor lad was depicted as gnawing a huge and bloody ...
... perhaps ; but those were hearty days . The butcher boy , in particular , was an ir- resistible and an easy mark . Here was opportu- nity for the red pigment , and plenty of it . The poor lad was depicted as gnawing a huge and bloody ...
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... perhaps six inches long , clothed in some gauzy stuff , appearing to float in the air , in the manner of a butterfly . That little winged figure was a fairy ! This " fairy " is believed in and commented on by grave men , men of ...
... perhaps six inches long , clothed in some gauzy stuff , appearing to float in the air , in the manner of a butterfly . That little winged figure was a fairy ! This " fairy " is believed in and commented on by grave men , men of ...
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Стр. 174 - By what means,' said the prince, 'are the Europeans thus powerful? Or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural princes? The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither.
Стр. 107 - I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
Стр. 99 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Стр. 103 - I must abide by the actual scene), a white cottage, embowered with flowering shrubs, so chosen as to unfold a succession of flowers upon the walls and clustering around the windows, through all the months of spring, summer, and autumn; beginning, in fact, with May roses, and ending with jasmine. Let it, however, not be spring, nor summer, nor autumn; but winter, in its sternest shape. This is a most important point in the science of happiness.
Стр. 209 - He and I walked away together: we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion, that I was now thinking of two friends we had lost, who once lived in the buildings behind us, Beauclerk and Garrick. " Ay, Sir, (said he, tenderly) and two such friends as cannot be supplied.
Стр. 33 - ... were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton. And the Legion brought over the custom of the strena (French, etrennes), the New Year's Gift of good omen. The apple, with its...
Стр. 110 - Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with .pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Стр. 19 - prentice notch'd he strait doth call, Where's dame? (quoth he) — quoth son of shop, She's gone her cake in milke to sop. Ho ! ho ! — to ISLINGTON — enough — Fetch Job my son, and our dog Ruffe ; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry, hay, duck — there Ruffe — hay, duck,
Стр. 210 - The word bottom thus introduced was so ludicrous when contrasted with his gravity, that most of us could not forbear tittering and laughing; though I recollect that the Bishop of Killaloe kept his countenance with perfect steadiness, while Miss Hannah More...
Стр. 32 - ... to be the disproportionate fruit of these small trees. At last, three bits of stick were fixed into the base of the apple, tripod-wise, and so it was borne round from house to house; and the children got cakes and sweets, and — those were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome...