Miscellanies: Stories and Essays, Volume 3Tinsley brothers, 1874 |
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Page 260 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
Page 241 - the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...
Page 330 - Hervey wrote to his mother that "the road between this place (ie, Kensington) and London is grown so infamously bad, that we live here in the same solitude as we should do if cast on a rock in the middle of the ocean, and all the Londoners tell us there is between them and us a great impassable gulf of mud.
Page 330 - It is for near twelve miles so narrow that a mouse cannot pass by any carriage; I saw a fellow creep under his waggon to assist me to lift, if possible, my chaise over a hedge.
Page 311 - At first they will come back from their work with their arms and knees streaming with blood, and the knees looking as if the caps had been pulled off. Then they must be rubbed with brine again, and perhaps go off at once to another chimney.
Page 305 - Pounds, and in default of Payment, to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for a Period not exceeding Three...
Page 330 - Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury.
Page 327 - The rule of the road is a paradox quite, In driving your carriage along; If you keep to the left — you are sure to go right If you keep to the right — you go wrong.
Page 278 - cut" — cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
Page 328 - Gala-water, from the name of the principal stream, the channel of the water being, when not flooded, the track chosen as the most level, and easiest to travel in. Even between the largest cities the means of travelling were but little superior. In 1678, an agreement was made to run a coach between Edinburgh and Glasgow, a distance of forty-four miles, which was to be drawn by six horses, and to perform the journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh and back again in six days.