The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, Volume 1Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 - Anecdotes |
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... travellers , and the vain glorious , but very pardonable , because no man's faith is imposed upon ; or if it should be so , il conse- quence attends persons seriously extravagant , expecting another should give credit to what he knows ...
... travellers , and the vain glorious , but very pardonable , because no man's faith is imposed upon ; or if it should be so , il conse- quence attends persons seriously extravagant , expecting another should give credit to what he knows ...
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... traveller . " Very strange , " said the other ; " but how got they into their hives ? " " That is none of my business ; egad , let them look to that . " Another , who had travelled as far as Persia , spoke to his man John , as he was ...
... traveller . " Very strange , " said the other ; " but how got they into their hives ? " " That is none of my business ; egad , let them look to that . " Another , who had travelled as far as Persia , spoke to his man John , as he was ...
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... travellers ; but , to shew you , that all of us are not tainted with the same lethargic incuriosity , I , who have been a great traveller in my time , in my own as well as foreign countries , here send you some important observations ...
... travellers ; but , to shew you , that all of us are not tainted with the same lethargic incuriosity , I , who have been a great traveller in my time , in my own as well as foreign countries , here send you some important observations ...
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... traveller use the horse rather than the coach or waggon ; but before I suffer him to set forwards , permit me to lay down an admonition or two , in relation to his garb , and principally as to the colour of it . I therefore , in short ...
... traveller use the horse rather than the coach or waggon ; but before I suffer him to set forwards , permit me to lay down an admonition or two , in relation to his garb , and principally as to the colour of it . I therefore , in short ...
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... travellers , the weight of which is in some degree taken off by a red coat . I have known the pertest chambermaid and ... traveller to be fully equipt and on his road ; where it may not be amiss to remind him that he has it now in his ...
... travellers , the weight of which is in some degree taken off by a red coat . I have known the pertest chambermaid and ... traveller to be fully equipt and on his road ; where it may not be amiss to remind him that he has it now in his ...
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Page 308 - Up flew the windows all, And every soul cried out, Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin— who but he ; His fame soon spread around — He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Page 308 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Page 304 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 305 - So three doors off the chaise was stayed, where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog to dash through thick and thin.
Page 410 - Yet, oh yet, thyself deceive not; Love may sink by slow decay, But by sudden wrench, believe not Hearts can thus be torn away: Still thine own its life retaineth, Still must mine, though bleeding, beat ; And the undying thought which paineth Is — that we no more may meet.
Page 311 - Ah luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.
Page 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 312 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 231 - was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine...
Page 159 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...