The life and adventures of Paul Plaintive, esq., by Martin Gribaldus Swammerdam, Volume 11811 |
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Page 9 - I'll make vengeance of calamity. Were I not thus reduced, thou wouldst not know, That, thus reduced, I dare defy thee still. Torture thou mayst, but thou shalt ne'er despise me. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear, And sighs and cries by nature grow on pain. But these are foreign to the soul : not mine The groans that issue, or the tears that fall ; They disobey me ; on the rack I scorn thee, As when my falchion clove thy helm in battle.
Page 176 - I thought that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, and mine had certainly gone to the bushes.
Page 68 - He ran about chattering and pulling the bars of his cage violently ; whether these mental emotions affected his health or not I am unable to say, but certain it is, that about this time he was taken unwell, and a common linseed poultice was applied, as the doctors say,
Page 99 - Register, the monthly publications, the daily papers, and a few occasional pamphlets, he could investigate, very profoundly, the balance of power, the balance of trade, and the balance of...
Page 152 - Across the stair-case landing's dangerous gloom Seiz'd on the massy door — that straight gave way And enter'd slow the horror-breathing room, Trembling, with dumb amazement now he trod While hope and fear his breast alternate...
Page 93 - O'er .wounded bodies creep : And those whom death had fairly caught, They sentence to the deep. One manly fellow on the deck...