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acquaintance Anecdote answered apothecary asked begat begged Ben Johnson better Bolus called Charles Bannister child Church-yard clergyman cried cure Dartford dear desired devil dinner doctor door drunk Dublin Englishman Epigram Epitaph exclaimed eyes farmer father fire fortune French Frenchman gave German give guineas hand head hearing honest honor horse humour husband illiac Irishman Italian Judas Iscariot kill King lady late laugh London Lord Lord Mansfield Lord Ross Lord Sandwich Madam maid married master Monsieur Tonson morning mountebank never night observing once pleas'd pocket poor pound Pray preaching quoth replied sare says Nash sermon servant soon Spaniard speak tell thee thing thou thought Three or four tion told took tricks Vicar of Bray vintner Vizir whistle wife wine woman word Zounds
Popular passages
Page 58 - I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for one. I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers and sisters and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 130 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Page 107 - When patients swallow physic without reason It Is but fair to give a little rhyme. He had a patient lying at death's door. Some three miles from the town — It might be four, To whom, one evening, Bolus sent an article In pharmacy, that 's called cathartical. And on the label of the stuff He wrote this verse, Which, one would think, was clear enough, And terse : '•WHEN TAKEN, To BE WELL SHAKEN.
Page 179 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give; See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown; He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 108 - Bolus arrived, and gave a doubtful tap, Between a single and a double rap. Knocks of this kind Are given by gentlemen who teach to dance; By fiddlers, and by opera.singers; One loud, and then a little one behind.
Page 130 - Faith to say, that they should be at all influenced by their wills or pay any regard to their commands. The man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
Page 156 - Madam, you will never die with doing good; and if you do, it will be the better for you,' answered Nash, and was about to proceed; but perceiving her grace had lost all patience, a parley ensued, when he, after much altercation, agreed to stop his hand and compound with her grace for thirty guineas. The duchess, however, seemed displeased the whole evening, and when he came to the table where she was playing, bid him, 'Stand farther, an ugly devil, for she hated the sight of him.' But her grace afterwards...
Page 59 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow^citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Page 107 - That his prescriptions he resolved to write in't. No opportunity he e'er let pass Of writing the directions on his labels, In dapper couplets, — like Gay's Fables ; Or, rather, like the lines in Hudibras. Apothecary's verse ! And where's the treason ? 'Tis simply honest dealing : — not a.
Page 190 - Here lies in horizontal position the outside case of George Routleigh, watchmaker ; whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession. Integrity was the mainspring, and prudence the regulator, of all the actions of his life.