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Pagina 1
... wherever I fee a cluster of people , I always mix with them , though I never open my lips but in my own club . ... I never tion of a very fullen youth ; but was always a favourite of my Ichoolmatter , who used to say , “ that my ...
... wherever I fee a cluster of people , I always mix with them , though I never open my lips but in my own club . ... I never tion of a very fullen youth ; but was always a favourite of my Ichoolmatter , who used to say , “ that my ...
Pagina 6
Thus the working of my own mind is the general entertainment of my life ; I never enter into the commerce of difcourfe with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps raised in me ...
Thus the working of my own mind is the general entertainment of my life ; I never enter into the commerce of difcourfe with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps raised in me ...
Pagina 23
He points to fuch an handsome young fellow , and whifpers that he is fecretly married to a great fortune ; when they doubt , he adds circumftances to prove it ; and never fails to aggravate their diftrefs , by affuring them , that , to ...
He points to fuch an handsome young fellow , and whifpers that he is fecretly married to a great fortune ; when they doubt , he adds circumftances to prove it ; and never fails to aggravate their diftrefs , by affuring them , that , to ...
Pagina 26
I would have been but a natural ftep for me to have perfonated that noble creature , after having behaved myself to fatisfaction in the part above mentioned ; but that of a lion is too great a character for one that never trod the stage ...
I would have been but a natural ftep for me to have perfonated that noble creature , after having behaved myself to fatisfaction in the part above mentioned ; but that of a lion is too great a character for one that never trod the stage ...
Pagina 28
Children , fays one of the frogs , you never confider that though this may be play to you , ' tis death to us . ' · · night at fuch an hour , is teazed by a fwarm of them ; who , because they are fure of room and good fire , have taken ...
Children , fays one of the frogs , you never confider that though this may be play to you , ' tis death to us . ' · · night at fuch an hour , is teazed by a fwarm of them ; who , because they are fure of room and good fire , have taken ...
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