Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature |
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Página 209 - You were in the passage and yet saw nothing of what was going forward. Have you a pair of eyes, Mr. Weller ? " "Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, "and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes you see, my wision's limited.
Página 14 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is in that word honour ? what is that honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o
Página 262 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries. But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Página 235 - Mary my dear) altho it does finish a portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up by and all in two minutes and a quarter.
Página 261 - In my way hither, Mrs. Malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library! — She had a book in each hand — they were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! — from that moment I guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress ! Mrs.
Página 226 - But the fact is that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years longer), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place— which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years.
Página 150 - Sir, I am a true labourer. I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.
Página 165 - Clean through me ! — a ball or two clean through me ! Sir Luc. Ay — may they — and it is much the genteelest attitude into the bargain. Acres. Look'ee ! sir Lucius — I'd just as lieve be shot in an awkward posture as a genteel one ; so, by my valour ! I will stand edgeways.
Página 85 - I care not how fast it rolls on, while such purl on the bank still is growing, and such eyes light the waves as they run. Marchioness, your health.
Página 252 - Ay, dear Foible; thank thee for that, dear Foible. He has put me out of all patience. I shall never" recompose my features to receive Sir Rowland with any economy of face. This wretch has fretted me that I am absolutely decayed.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature |
| Autor | John Boynton Priestley |
| Editor | Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 11 Dic. 2007 |
| Largo | 299 páginas |
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