A Lift for the LazyPutnam, 1849 - 195 頁 |
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... witness the feat . The object of filling the house was accomplished ; but the duped crowd ( who really ex- pected to see the man enter the quart bottle ) , in the storm of their indignation , nearly pulled the whole edi- fice down ...
... witness the feat . The object of filling the house was accomplished ; but the duped crowd ( who really ex- pected to see the man enter the quart bottle ) , in the storm of their indignation , nearly pulled the whole edi- fice down ...
第 101 頁
... witness on his voire dire will be likely to puz- zle him , if he be not aware that vrai dire is the original term ; and there are many expressions used by gentle- men of the long robe , that will not bear an out - door construction - ...
... witness on his voire dire will be likely to puz- zle him , if he be not aware that vrai dire is the original term ; and there are many expressions used by gentle- men of the long robe , that will not bear an out - door construction - ...
第 102 頁
... witness whose testimony he was about to oppose , and declaimed for an hour against the introduction of an ancient terrier ! Yes , those were his words , and no mistake . How I went , heart and soul , for the defendant ! How I feared ...
... witness whose testimony he was about to oppose , and declaimed for an hour against the introduction of an ancient terrier ! Yes , those were his words , and no mistake . How I went , heart and soul , for the defendant ! How I feared ...
第 103 頁
... witness what before I had only seen in print . " While all this was revolving within me , the trial seemed to be progressing in the old way again : the judges had resumed their former occupations of sleep- ing and reading ; the clerk ...
... witness what before I had only seen in print . " While all this was revolving within me , the trial seemed to be progressing in the old way again : the judges had resumed their former occupations of sleep- ing and reading ; the clerk ...
第 104 頁
... witness ' stand was occupied by a short puffy - looking man , very red , very much fright- ened , with a very musty roll of parchment documents in his hands . Many and dreary were the questions put to him , and oft and drearily did he ...
... witness ' stand was occupied by a short puffy - looking man , very red , very much fright- ened , with a very musty roll of parchment documents in his hands . Many and dreary were the questions put to him , and oft and drearily did he ...
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第 138 頁 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
第 41 頁 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
第 138 頁 - ... sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or...
第 140 頁 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
第 79 頁 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
第 72 頁 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
第 141 頁 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
第 139 頁 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
第 154 頁 - Now as I am glad that Sir John Oldcastle is put out, so I am sorry that Sir John Fastolfe is put in, to relieve his memory in this base service, to be the anvil for every dull wit to strike upon. Nor is our comedian excusable, by some alteration of his name, writing him Sir John Falstafe (and making him the property of pleasure for King Henry the Fifth to abuse), seeing the vicinity of sounds intrench on the memory of that worthy knight, and few do heed the inconsiderable difference in spelling of...