The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volym 50–51Henry Colburn, 1837 |
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... Snep , " replied the clerk . " Wages ? " " Whatever you find me worth , " said Snep ; " for some nuts have no kernels , and many an egg , when cracked , is found addled . Try me , therefore , Mynheer , and add to the pleasure of serving ...
... Snep , " replied the clerk . " Wages ? " " Whatever you find me worth , " said Snep ; " for some nuts have no kernels , and many an egg , when cracked , is found addled . Try me , therefore , Mynheer , and add to the pleasure of serving ...
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... Snep's speech ; added to which , he found him so prompt and efficient in his business , that he became every day more delighted with the novel acquisition he had made . He spoke loudly in his praise to Jannetje ; and on the first ...
... Snep's speech ; added to which , he found him so prompt and efficient in his business , that he became every day more delighted with the novel acquisition he had made . He spoke loudly in his praise to Jannetje ; and on the first ...
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... Snep , " said she ; " for your good report has preceded you . ” " That's unfortunate , " replied Jan ; " for a good report is like a Aattering likeness , and nine times out of ten the original had better keep out of the way for fear of ...
... Snep , " said she ; " for your good report has preceded you . ” " That's unfortunate , " replied Jan ; " for a good report is like a Aattering likeness , and nine times out of ten the original had better keep out of the way for fear of ...
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... Snep , abruptly . " What do you think I've been spending time and money , and got fuddled for nothing ? No ! Let Gerrit take the bills immediately , and let them discount their acceptances . Why , it was only yesterday they requested ...
... Snep , abruptly . " What do you think I've been spending time and money , and got fuddled for nothing ? No ! Let Gerrit take the bills immediately , and let them discount their acceptances . Why , it was only yesterday they requested ...
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... Snep . Business , too , at this epoch began to assume a very different appear- ance from what it had done at the time of his harvest ; and younger and more enterprising men entered the field , with whom he would have found it a great ...
... Snep . Business , too , at this epoch began to assume a very different appear- ance from what it had done at the time of his harvest ; and younger and more enterprising men entered the field , with whom he would have found it a great ...
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Sida 432 - gainst every odds— and I've gained the victory. Our captain sent for all of us; my merry men, said he, I havn't the gift of the gab, my lads, but yet I thankful be; You've done your duty handsomely, each man stood to his gun, If you hadn't, you villains, as sure as day, I'd have flogged each mother's son. Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I'm at sea, I'll fight 'gainst every odds — and I'll gain the victory.
Sida 196 - Both in his native and domesticated state, during the solemn stillness of night, as soon as the moon rises in silent majesty, he begins his delightful solo ; and serenades us the livelong night with a full display of his vocal powers, making the whole neighbourhood ring with his inimitable medley...
Sida 370 - Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Sida 195 - ... and even handsome. The ease, elegance and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius.
Sida 262 - He took three extra glasses of Madeira without washing down the obstinate doubt that threatened to become an impediment to his ever speaking again with any confidence or comfort. Naturally fond of music, which he could have enjoyed at all hours but for the single drawback of not being able to hear a note, he resorted for solace to his music-book, and began to read. The effort was unsuccessful — -a solitary crotchet, harsh and horrid, having taken possession of his mind. He drew his chair to the...
Sida 196 - The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat,...
Sida 226 - Of passion link the universal kind Of man so close, what wonder if to search This common nature through the various change Of sex, and age, and fortune, and the frame Of each peculiar, draw the busy mind With unresisted charms?
Sida 196 - Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " he bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recall his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain.
Sida 229 - What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation ? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from...
Sida 139 - Upon this development of the motives, the views, and the consistency of the above-mentioned band of patriots, Johnson once remarked to me, that it had given more strength to government than all that had been written in its defence, meaning thereby, that it had destroyed all confidence in men of that character.