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" Benicia a port of entry ; in view of all these circumstances I had, indeed, expected some trifling compliment — a public dinner, possibly, or peradventure a delicate present of a lot or two — the deeds inclosed in a neat and appropriate letter from... "
Phoenixiana: Or, Sketches and Burlesques - Page 82
by George Horatio Derby - 1856 - 274 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59

Scotland - 1816 - 838 pages
...don't drink. Do you know you put me a good deal in mind of Macready ? Did you ever hear him in Lear, ' How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is To have a toothless child ? ' You're remarkably unjust, Fred, as you will acknowledge in your cooler moments. I am hurt by your...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59

England - 1846 - 798 pages
...don't drink. Do you know yon put me a good deal in mind of Macready ? Did you ever hear him in Lear, ' How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is To have a toothless child ? ' You're remarkably unjust, Fred, as yon will acknowledge in your cooler moments. I am hurt by your...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 59

England - 1846 - 816 pages
...don't drink. Do you know yon put me a good deal in mind of Macready ? Did you ever hear him in Lear, ' How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is To have a toothless child ! ' You're remarkablyunjust, Fred, as jrou will acknowledge in your cooler moments. I am hurt by your...
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Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Diary

Thomas Moore - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 378 pages
...occasion. A joke about the " Pigmies warring with the Cranes." Told of the actor saying by mistake, — " How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is, To have a toothless child;" »and old Parker who used always to say the " coison'd pup " instead of the " poison'd cup ; " and...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 46

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1855 - 704 pages
...made by a western actor, in the furor of rendering the awful curse in LKA.B : ' THAT she may feel now sharper than a serpent's thanks it is To have a toothless child ! ' enees' in this kind. - - - Л 'RICHTE plcasaunte season' had we, on a late lovely October day,...
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Phoenixiana: Or, Sketches and Burlesques

George Horatio Derby - American wit and humor - 1856 - 294 pages
...this takes, I'll try it again. Yours for ever SQUIBOB. SQUIBOB IN SONOMA. SONOMA, October 10, 1850. I ARRIVED at this place some days since, but have...excitement. The election was rapidly approaching, and Herr Rossiter was exhibiting feats of legerdemain at the California House. Individuals were rushing about...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volumes 14-15

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child ! " by a slip of the tongue said, "How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is to have a toothless child ! " — and the audience were so much delighted with the blunder that whenever he acted the part afterwards...
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Phœnixiana; Or, Sketches and Burlesques

George Horatio Derby - California - 1870 - 290 pages
...dinner, possibly, or pcradventure a delicate present of a lot or two — the deeds inclosed in a nr &t and appropriate letter from the Town Council. But...excitement. The election was rapidly approaching, and Herr Rossiter was exhibiting feats of legerdemain at the California House. Individuals were rushing about...
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The Catholic Record, Volumes 1-2

Catholic literature - 1871 - 850 pages
...How »harper than a serpent's tooth it Ь To have a thankless child. Which the unhappy man rendered: How sharper than a serpent's thanks it Is To have a toothless child. A reading not quite so tragic as the original. A still more terrible thing must it be for a clergyman...
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Personal Reminiscences

Thomas Moore, William Jerdan - Authors, English - 1875 - 328 pages
...occasion. A joke about the " Pigmies warring with the Cranes." Told of the actor saying by mistake, — " How sharper than a serpent's thanks it is, To have a toothless child; " and old Parker who used always to say the " coison'd pup " instead of the "poison'd cup ; " and one...
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