Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life & Every-day PeopleGetz, Buck & Company, 1852 - 3 pages |
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Page 224 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 222 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. Des. The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!
Page 119 - IT is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. He awakens no sympathy in the breast of any single person; his existence is a matter of interest to no one save himself ; he cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies, for no one remembered him when he was alive.
Page 152 - I will.' CXLIII He search'd, they search'd, and rummaged everywhere, Closet and clothes-press, chest and window-seat, And found much linen, lace, and several pair Of stockings, slippers, brushes, combs, complete, With other articles of ladies fair, To keep them beautiful, or leave them neat: Arras they prick'd and curtains with their swords, And wounded several shutters, and some boards.
Page 161 - The installation of the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, was nothing in point of bustle and turmoil to the installation of Mrs.
Page 121 - Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Page 121 - TIME ! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas.