The Youth of Jefferson, Or, A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

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Redfield, 1854 - Всего страниц: 249
 

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Стр. 215 - Last night, as merry as agreeable company and dancing with Belinda in the Apollo could make me, I never could have thought the succeeding sun would have seen me so wretched as I now am!
Стр. 214 - You know it rained last night, or if you do not know it, I am sure I do. When I went to bed, I laid my watch in the usual place, and going to take her up after I arose this morning, I found her in the same place, it's true!
Стр. 214 - I'll tell you, it's my opinion that the Devil came and bored the hole over it on purpose. Well, as I was saying, my poor watch had lost her speech. I should not have cared much for this, but something worse attended it; the subtle particles of the water with which the case was filled, had, by their penetration, so overcome the cohesion of the particles of the paper, of which my dear picture and watch-paper were composed, that, in attempting to take them out to dry them, good God!
Стр. 3 - Asnes, car chantez, Belle bouche rechignez, Vous aurez du foin assez, Et de l'avoine à plantez.
Стр. 215 - I think began to whine a little under his afflictions,) ' Are not my days few ? Cease then, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.
Стр. 216 - B l join and get a pole chair and a pair of keen horses, practise the law in the same courts, and drive about to all the dances in the country together.
Стр. 213 - DEAR PAGE, — This very day, to others the day of greatest mirth and jollity, sees me overwhelmed with more and greater misfortunes than have befallen a descendant of Adam for these thousand years past, I am sure; and perhaps, after excepting Job, since the creation of the world.
Стр. 214 - Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Coke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life.

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