Woodleigh, by the author of 'One and twenty'., Volume 1 |
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Page 241 - Love, Is sweetest sweet that men can have. I say, Love, Sour Love, Makes virtue yield as beauty's slave: A bitter sweet, a folly worst of all, That forceth wisdom to be folly's thrall.
Page 145 - Eumenides, that you are in so good health as all your friends were at the making hereof, — God give you good morrow, sir! Lack you not a neat, handsome, and cleanly young lad, about the age of fifteen or sixteen years, that can run by your horse, and, for a need, make your mastership's shoes as black as ink?
Page 120 - Bravo! lay on, Johnny — go it — you have done it now — you may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb...
Page 198 - There's a room for you, but" — he took off his hat and ran his fingers through his hair — "I don't think you ought to stay here.
Page 69 - There followed the usual greetings — gracious questionings as to where I had been, and what I had been doing, since that awful time when I had lain like a felon in Newgate.
Page 1 - Snowb. — What is this simpering ? Where have you been ? — what doing ? " "Rosem. — Been? Been to church, and been doing matrimony.