Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Band 1

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R. Bentley, 1841 - 224 Seiten
 

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Seite 108 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Seite 88 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Seite 274 - Much of this literature goes under the name of the 'extraordinary voyage'. This was the term given to a type of novel that developed in French literature at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. The 'extraordinary voyage...
Seite 3 - Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Seite 276 - For fortitude distinguisheth of the grounds of quarrels, whether they be just; and not only so, but whether they be worthy; and setteth a better price upon men's lives, than to bestow them idly; nay, it is weakness and disesteem of a man's self, to put a man's life upon such liedger performances : a man's life is not to be trifled away; it is to be offered up and sacrificed to honourable services, public merits, good causes, and noble adventures.
Seite 387 - I was always miserable when absent from my gang, and obliged to return to Thuggee. My father made me taste of that fatal goor when I was yet a mere boy ; and if I were to live a thousand years, I should never be able to follow any other trade.
Seite 283 - ... troops to the slaughter to cause a great number of officers to be knocked on the head in a battle, or against stone walls, in order to fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions.
Seite 192 - Caermerdin, and did it commend Unto these sprites to bring to perfect end ; During which work the Lady of the Lake, Whom long he loved, for him in haste did send ; Who, thereby forced his workmen to forsake, Them bound till his return their labor not to slack. In the mean time, through that false lady's train, He was surprised, and buried under beare,* Ne ever to his work returned again...
Seite 95 - One of them was for a wheel for perpetual motion, capital, one million; another was for " encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and church lands, and repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses." Why the clergy, who were so mainly interested in the latter clause, should have taken so much interest in the first, is only to be explained on the supposition that the scheme was projected by a knot of the fox-hunting parsons, once so common...
Seite 214 - Besides being acted in London sixty-three days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time; at Bath and Bristol, &c.

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