Vagabonds AllScribner, 1926 - 264 pagine |
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adventures Alnwick Castle arrived Arthur Orton asked beauty believe Bogle Borradaile Buttermere called Captain career Carew castle Castro Clarke Colonel Hope Constable Court Courtenay daughter doubt Duke Duke of York Duke's dupes evidence farmer father followed Foote Foote's fortune-telling fraud friends Garrick gave gentleman gipsy girl hand Hatfield hear heard hero Home honour horse impostor jail Jamie John Hatfield King knew Lady Tichborne Leeds letter Little John lived London Lord Ranelagh Madame Rachel married Mary Anne Mary Anne Clarke Mary Bateman medium merry Miss Blythe morning never Nichols Tom night Perigo piper pipes played poor prisoner received returned Robin Hood Roger Tichborne rogue and vagabond Rothbury Samuel Foote séances seems sent sheriff spirit story strange Street tell Tichborne to-day told took vagrom Wagga Wagga wandering wife William woman young
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Pagina 166 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.* He upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree,...
Pagina 88 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Pagina 232 - Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the Beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
Pagina 76 - Our life is but a winter day Some only breakfast and away ; Others, to dinner stay, and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt, who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest, has the least to pay.
Pagina 172 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
Pagina 76 - Man's life is like a winter's day, Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed : The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Pagina 83 - Do I sleep ? do I dream ? Do I wonder and doubt ? Are things what they seem ? Or is visions about ? Is our civilization a failure ? Or is the Caucasian played out ? Which expressions are strong ; Yet would feebly imply Some account of a wrong — Not to call it a lie — As was worked off on William, my pardner, And the same being W. Nye. He came down to the Ford On the very same day Of that lottery...
Pagina 166 - Garrick is restrained by some principle ; but Foote has the advantage of an unlimited range. Garrick has some delicacy of feeling ; it is possible to put him out ; you may get the better of him ; but Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I ever knew : when you have driven him into a corner, and think you are sure of him, he rims through between your legs, or jumps over your head, and makes his escape.
Pagina xii - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Pagina xxi - And this enactment appears to have remained unaltered by any act of the legislature, ex'cept in the case of rogues and vagabonds, who were to be sent to their last dwelling, if they had any ; if not, to the place where they last dwelt by the space of one year ; though decisions of the courts of law seem to have considered a month's abode, or a residence of forty days, in some cases sufficient to gain a settlement. The doubts which, however, existed on this subject, were removed by 13 and 14 Car.
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