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... of the wildness of his fon , prepares the reader for the frolics which are here to be recounted , and the characters which are now to be exhibited . Johnson . To be commenc'd in ftronds afar remote . No more A 2 THE FIRST PART* ...
... of the wildness of his fon , prepares the reader for the frolics which are here to be recounted , and the characters which are now to be exhibited . Johnson . To be commenc'd in ftronds afar remote . No more A 2 THE FIRST PART* ...
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... Johnson . St Nicholas was the patron faint of fcholars : and Nicholas , or Old Nick , is a cant name for the devil . Hence he equivocally calls robbers St Nicholas's clarks . Warh masters , and great oneyers ; fuch as can hold 22 The ...
... Johnson . St Nicholas was the patron faint of fcholars : and Nicholas , or Old Nick , is a cant name for the devil . Hence he equivocally calls robbers St Nicholas's clarks . Warh masters , and great oneyers ; fuch as can hold 22 The ...
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... To colt , is to fool , to trick . Fohnson . Alluding to the order of the garter , in which he was inrolled as heir - apparent . Johnson . VO L. V. C hedge ; when thou need'ft him , there shalt thou St. 3 . KING HENRY IV .
... To colt , is to fool , to trick . Fohnson . Alluding to the order of the garter , in which he was inrolled as heir - apparent . Johnson . VO L. V. C hedge ; when thou need'ft him , there shalt thou St. 3 . KING HENRY IV .
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... this is no world [ not , To play with mammets † , and to tilt with lips . " Perhaps , And thought hath so disturb'd . Johnson . Puppets . Jebafon . We must have bloody nofes , and crack'd crowns , C 3 Sc . 6 . 29 KING HENRY IV .
... this is no world [ not , To play with mammets † , and to tilt with lips . " Perhaps , And thought hath so disturb'd . Johnson . Puppets . Jebafon . We must have bloody nofes , and crack'd crowns , C 3 Sc . 6 . 29 KING HENRY IV .
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... Johnson . † A tapster , an under - drawer . Johnson . Fran . Forfooth , five years , and as much Sc . 8 . 31 KING HENRY IV .
... Johnson . † A tapster , an under - drawer . Johnson . Fran . Forfooth , five years , and as much Sc . 8 . 31 KING HENRY IV .
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Page 229 - In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 205 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 146 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.
Page 13 - He was perfumed like a milliner; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again ; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 220 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 79 - 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 that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page 79 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 205 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home...
Page 139 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Page 47 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.