The Miseries of Human Life, Or, the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive: With a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy, with which are Now for the First Time Interspersed, Varieties, Incidental to the Principal Matter, in Prose and Verse, in Nine Additional Dialogues as Overheard by James Beresford, Volume 1W. Miller, 1807 |
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... hope to sit down easy under our afflictions . - There exists , Mr Testy , and has immemorially existed , a set of Usurpers , who assume to themselves a prescriptive and exclusive right of suffering , and complaining , upon the strength ...
... hope to sit down easy under our afflictions . - There exists , Mr Testy , and has immemorially existed , a set of Usurpers , who assume to themselves a prescriptive and exclusive right of suffering , and complaining , upon the strength ...
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... of Despair , —what are the wounds they have to shew ? where are the arguments by which they hope to prop their tottering title to a triumph , and win from us the honours of perpetual precedence in the ranks of woe MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
... of Despair , —what are the wounds they have to shew ? where are the arguments by which they hope to prop their tottering title to a triumph , and win from us the honours of perpetual precedence in the ranks of woe MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE .
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... hope , or I should be in the same scrape , my- self ; for , as to his quoting fits , he drew them from me , I believe ; I have had them upon me , off and on , ever since I was thus high ; and Ned , the impudent dog , dares to tell me ...
... hope , or I should be in the same scrape , my- self ; for , as to his quoting fits , he drew them from me , I believe ; I have had them upon me , off and on , ever since I was thus high ; and Ned , the impudent dog , dares to tell me ...
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... hope that it will presently relieve you by pulverising . 3. ( T. ) Suddenly rousing yourself from the ennui of a solitary walk by striking your toe ( with a corn at the end of it ) .full and hard against the sharp corner of a fixed ...
... hope that it will presently relieve you by pulverising . 3. ( T. ) Suddenly rousing yourself from the ennui of a solitary walk by striking your toe ( with a corn at the end of it ) .full and hard against the sharp corner of a fixed ...
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... hope of re- covering it , the other left in the same predicament : -the second stage of ruin is that of standing , or rather tottering , in blank despair , with both bare feet planted , ancle - deep , in the quagmire . — The last - I ...
... hope of re- covering it , the other left in the same predicament : -the second stage of ruin is that of standing , or rather tottering , in blank despair , with both bare feet planted , ancle - deep , in the quagmire . — The last - I ...
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arrival attempt begin better blotting paper break brother candle carriage coach cold comfort confess dead dead silence DIALOGUE dinner Ditto door dressing ears endeavouring eyes favourite feelings finding fingers fire foot gemens going GROAN hand head hear hope horse journey Juvenal keep labouring lady late least leave length London malè ment mind minuet Miseries MISERIES OF HUMAN morning morning call nails Ned Tes neque nerves never night nihil nose obliged once paper party passing perfect stranger perpetually poker poor pretty rascal reading recollect rest ROBINSON CRUSOE Senior and Junior.-Sensitive Sensitive servant SHAK shew side silence sorrows stand suddenly suffer tell Testy Testy's thing throw tion tongue tu quoque turn violent VIRG walk whole wind worse
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Page 130 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 302 - For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Page 53 - Death ! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. The sun himself by thy permission shines, And one day thou shalt pluck him from his sphere : Amid such mighty plunder, why exhaust Thy partial quiver on a mark so mean ? Why thy peculiar rancour wreak'd on me ? Insatiate archer! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 228 - IiOud was the noise, aghast was every guest. The women shriek'd, the men forsook the feast...
Page 30 - ... scullion — after having long overlooked and animated their busy labours, and seen the exuberant produce turned and re-turned under a smiling sun, till every blade is as dry as a bone, and as sweet as a rose...
Page 64 - Stopping in the street to address a person whom you know rather too well to pass him without speaking, and yet not quite well enough to have a word to say to him — he feeling himself in the same dilemma — so that...
Page 278 - tis possible for woman To suffer greater ills than Lucia suffers ? MARCIA. 0 Lucia, Lucia, might my big-swoln heart Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow Marcia could answer thee in sighs, keep pace • With all thy woes, and count out tear for tear.
Page 31 - While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all ; then, in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been only singing all the while. Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed !— if / had •been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment, " Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas,...
Page 136 - After having left a company in which you have been galled by the raillery of some wag by profession, thinking, at your leisure, of a repartee, which, if discharged at the proper moment, would have blown him to atoms.
Page 141 - Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign ; and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroil'd. And Discord, with a thousand various mouths.