Memoirs of a Water Drinker, 第 1-2 卷Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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actor admiration Allen appeared attention aunt battle of Trenton Beaglehole beautiful Cadwallader called Captain John Smith Captain Smith cause character companions Cooke's Davenport death delight Doctor door dress duty Emma Portland Epsom eyes face fard father fear feelings felt gentleman George Frederick Cooke hand happy harpsichord heard Henry Johnson hero Hilson hoax honour hope husband intemperance knew lady laugh Littlejohn looked Lord Anson Macbeth marriage mean mind Miss Atherton mother nature never New-York night passed person physician play poor reader received scene seen Shakspeare sick silent sirr sister smile Spif Spiff Spiffard-town stage stood suffer switchel tell theatre thing thought told Tontine took tragedian Trowbridge Trusty truth turned uncle uncon unhappy vice voice walk watchman water-drinker wife Williams wine wish woman words Yankee young youth Zebediah Spiffard
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第 3 頁 - Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
第 83 頁 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
第 45 頁 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey.
第 106 頁 - Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
第 73 頁 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
第 45 頁 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
第 215 頁 - Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time ; But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
第 45 頁 - Would to God a like spirit miylit diffuse, itself generally into the minds of the. people of this country! But I despair of seeing it. Some petitions were presented to the Assembly, at its last session, for the abolition of Slavery ; but they could scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but by degrees it certainly might and assuredly ought to be effected, and that, too, by legislative authority.
第 73 頁 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
第 159 頁 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.