Tales and Trifles, from Blackwood's and Other Popular Magazines, Volume 2William Tegg&Company, 1849 |
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Page 288 - ... but the lord Digby, who advised it ; and, it is very true, was so willing to take the utmost hazard upon himself, that he did offer the king, when he knew in what house they were together, with a select company of gentlemen...
Page 235 - ... that word, or told them not to break their necks. One, in particular, even abstained from using his customary phrase, "this is a drop of good wine ;'' and another forbore to congratulate the friend who sat next him, and who had been married since he last saw him, because he was accustomed on such occasions to employ figurative language, and talk of the holy noose of wedlock. Some fifteen years had now glided away since the fate of poor Rowland, and the ten remained ; but the stealing hand of...
Page 286 - I shall try whether I know Sir John Hotham ; and whether he be in truth, the same man of honour, I have always taken him to be: and, thereupon, told him who he was ; and that he hoped he was too much a gentleman to deliver him up a sacrifice to their rage and fury, who, he well knew, were his implacable enemies.
Page 65 - ... to reveal it next morning. In the morning he went to a magistrate, and made the whole matter known with all the circumstances ; and diligent search being made, the body was found in a coal-pit, with five wounds in the head, and the pick and shoes and stockings yet...
Page 227 - ... houses on the first and last day of the year ; and the first bottle of wine un-corked at the first dinner should be recorked and put away, to be drunk by him who should be the last of their number; that they should...
Page 238 - At length came the LAST dinner ; and the survivor of the twelve > upon whose head four score and ten winters had showered their snow, ate his solitary meal. It so chanced that it was in his house, and at his table, they celebrated the first. In his cellar, too, had remained, for...
Page 234 - Every body pitied him ; and nobody could tell why he did it. He was not poor ; he was not a gambler ; he was not a speculator ; but phrenology settled it. The organ of acquisitiveness was discovered in his head, after his execution, as large as a pigeon's egg. He could not help it. It would be injustice to the ten to say, that even wine, friendship, and a merry season, could dispel the gloom which pervaded this dinner. It was agreed beforehand, that they should not allude to the distressing and melancholy...
Page 25 - Hard by a cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savoury dinner set, Of herbs and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses...
Page 234 - ... the wit, the oracle, the life of their little circle, had, on the morning of that day, forfeited his life upon a public scaffold, for having made one single stroke of his pen in a wrong place. In other words, a bill of exchange which passed into his hands for 700/., passed out of it for 1700^.
Page 117 - Hear me profess sincerely : had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.