Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie, المجلدات 6-10

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Braumüller, 1897

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الصفحة 121 - I know the length of the Emperor of China's foot ; have kissed the Great Mogul's slipper, and rid a hunting upon an elephant with the Cham of Tartary. — Body o...
الصفحة 170 - Lastly, to the dominion of the tea-table I submit , — but with proviso, that you exceed not in your province; but restrain yourself to native and simple teatable drinks, as tea, chocolate, and coffee...
الصفحة 168 - If you do, I protest I must recede — or think that I have made a prostitution of decorums, but in the vehemence of compassion, and to save the life of a person of so much importance WAIT.
الصفحة 167 - ... I'll give the first impression on a couch — I won't lye neither, but loll and lean upon one elbow ; with one foot a little dangling off, jogging in a thoughtful way — yes — and then as soon as he appears, start, ay, start and be...
الصفحة 169 - Trifles, as liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please; to write and receive letters without interrogatories or wry faces on your part; to wear what I please, and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance, or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations...
الصفحة 131 - I don't know but my father in good nature may press me to the immediate signing the deed of conveyance of my estate, and I'll defer it as long as I can.
الصفحة 136 - The sooner the better. Jeremy, come hither, closer, that none may overhear us. Jeremy, I can tell you news. Angelica is turned nun, and I am turning friar, and yet we'll marry one another in spite of the Pope. Get me a cowl and beads, that I may play my part, for she'll meet me two hours hence in black and white, and a long veil to cover the project, and we won't see one another's faces till we have done something to be ashamed of; and then we'll blush once for all.
الصفحة 155 - Not always, but as often as his memory fails him, and his commonplace of comparisons. He is a fool with a good memory, and some few scraps of other folks' wit. He is one whose conversation can never be approved, yet it is now and then to be endured.
الصفحة 169 - Well, have I liberty to offer conditions : — that when you are dwindled into a wife, I may not be beyond measure enlarged into a husband ? MILLA.
الصفحة 171 - To drink is a Christian diversion Unknown to the Turk or the Persian: Let Mahometan fools Live by heathenish rules, And be damned over tea-cups and coffee.

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