Tylney Hall, Band 2A. H. Baily, 1834 |
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Alderney answered Raby answered Ringwood answered the Creole arms Baronet barrel Beelzebub began Bellamy Blenheim blood body brown woman Cadeau cousins Creole's cried dark dear devil Dick door ears exclaimed eyes face fancy father favour favourite feel fellow fish flash fox-hunter Gipsies glass gout Grace Rivers Hall Hamilton hand Hawksley head heard heart heaven Hive Hollington honour hope horse huntsman Item Jack Ketch Judge Jefferies jump Justice Rivers Kitts look magistrate mind Miss Rivers Miss Twigg mistress mother mulled wine murder never palmistry Phidias Pompey pooh poor Raby's ranter replied ride round seemed shouted Sir Mark smile soul spaniel sporting Squire stood suddenly sure there's thing thought Tibbie tone took turn Tylney Hall Unlucky Joe Uriah uttered voice walk whilst whip wish words young Twigg
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Seite 2 - But, ladies, there is an old and true proverb, that you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Seite 83 - There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun ; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Seite 102 - Or, Diggon her is, or I missay. Dig. Her was her while it was day-light, But now her is a most wretched wight.
Seite 283 - Bacchus will preach to us out of a barrel, instead of the methodist Bundy. We'll drink to the King in good strong ale, like souls that are true and loyal, And a fig for Mrs. Hanway, camomile, sage and penny-royal ; And a fig for Master Gregory, that takes tipsy folks into custody, He was a wise man to-morrow, and will be a wiser man yesterday. ***** Come fill a bumper up, my boys, and toss off every drop of it...
Seite 57 - Feasts as of people being put to the sword ; and the ravings of despair, which seemed to arise from an actual foretaste of torment, were strangely blended with rapturous shouts of
Seite 1 - May fawn and sport, but never leave his nature. The jars of brothers, two such mighty ones, Are like a small stone thrown into a river, The breach scarce heard ; but view the beaten current, And you shall see a thousand angry rings Rise in his face, still swelling and still growing...
Seite 249 - Item. An immense Macedoine of all the fruits of the season, jumbled together in jam, jelly, and cream. Such were some of the objects, interspersed with Serpentines of sherry, Peerless Pools of port, and New Rivers of Madeira, that saluted the eyes of the expectant guests, thus untimely reduced to the feast of reason and the flow of soul. The unfortunate hostess appeared ready to drop on the spot; but, according to Major Oakley's theory, she refrained from fainting among so many broken bottles ; whilst...
Seite 1 - The sun, above the mountain's head, A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green fields has spread, His first sweet evening yellow. Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How...
Seite 248 - ... Glasse again. Item. A large pound crab, sitting upright against a table, and nursing a chicken between its claws. Item. A collard eel, uncoiled, and threatening like a boa constrictor to swallow a fowl. Item. A Madeira pond, in a dish cover, with a duck drowned in it. Item. A pig's face, with a snout smelling at a bunch of artificial flowers. Item. A leg of lamb, as yellow as the leg of a boy at Christ's hospital, thanks to the mustard-pot. Item. A tongue all over
Seite 212 - ... of humour. Mrs. Twigg scolded and wept by turns, and threatened to faint, but had not time to spare for fits; and the cook fumed and broiled at her mistress's culinary interference. The coachman sulkily helped in the kitchen, to whip cream instead of horses. The butler quarrelled with the footmen; and the housemaids among