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Page xii
... bring our tribute and homage ' Tailpiece - A bachelor's complaint of the behaviour of married people Headpiece - On some of the old actors ' Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch ' ' Ben - the pleasant sailor which Bannister gives us ...
... bring our tribute and homage ' Tailpiece - A bachelor's complaint of the behaviour of married people Headpiece - On some of the old actors ' Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Sir Toby Belch ' ' Ben - the pleasant sailor which Bannister gives us ...
Page 23
... bring together whatever can be said in praise of them , dropping all the other side of the argument most in- geniously . I remember L. at school ; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages , which I and others of his ...
... bring together whatever can be said in praise of them , dropping all the other side of the argument most in- geniously . I remember L. at school ; and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages , which I and others of his ...
Page 24
... bringing ; sympathy for those who were too many to share in it ; and , at top of all , hunger ( eldest , strongest of the passions ! ) pre- dominant , breaking down the stony fences of shame , and awkwardness , and a troubling over ...
... bringing ; sympathy for those who were too many to share in it ; and , at top of all , hunger ( eldest , strongest of the passions ! ) pre- dominant , breaking down the stony fences of shame , and awkwardness , and a troubling over ...
Page 27
... bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves , when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live - long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I ...
... bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day - leaves , when , by some strange arrangement , we were turned out , for the live - long day , upon our own hands , whether we had friends to go to , or none . I ...
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... bringing him to the gallows ) . This petty Nero actually branded a boy , who had offended him , with a red hot iron ; and nearly starved forty of us , with exacting contributions , to the one half of our bread , to pamper a young ass ...
... bringing him to the gallows ) . This petty Nero actually branded a boy , who had offended him , with a red hot iron ; and nearly starved forty of us , with exacting contributions , to the one half of our bread , to pamper a young ass ...
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