The Miseries of Human Life, Or, The Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive: With a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy. To which are Now, for the First, Time, Added, Posthumous Groans, Volume 1P. Wright and Son, 1826 |
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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 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 I had been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your embarrassment," Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas, cantas...
Page 64 - Entering into the figure of a country-dance with so much spirit as to force your leg and foot through the muslin drapery of your fair partner. After walking in a great hurry to a place, on very urgent business, by what you think a shorter cut, and supposing that you are just arriving at the door you want—
Page 225 - IiOud was the noise, aghast was every guest. The women shriek'd, the men forsook the feast ; The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd ; The hunter close pursu'd the visionary maid ; She rent the heaven with loud laments, imploring aid.
Page 273 - 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 250 - Lapluad night, that you have neglected to see, as usual, that the fires are all safe, below; — . then, after an agonizing interval of hesitation, crawling out, like a culprit, and quivering down stairs. Tes. You have robbed me, Sensitive ; — all this happened to me last night, as I was just thinking to tell you: — O it was a snug job, to be sure ! — as to myself, I had no scruple in determining that it would have been a world pleasanter, in such a night as that, to be.
Page 297 - Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie...
Page 162 - Glyconis, 30 nodosa corpus nolis prohibere cheragra. est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra. fervet avaritia miseroque cupidine pectus : sunt verba et voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis et magnam morbi deponere partem.
Page 31 - ... meadow is completely got under, and the whole scene of action is a swamp. When the enemy has performed his commission by a total defeat of your hopes, when he has completely swept the field, and scattered your whole party in a panic-flight, he suddenly breaks up his forces, and quits the field; leaving you to comfort and amuse yourself, under your loss, by looking at his Colours, in the shape of a most beautiful rainbow, which he displays in his rear.