Theodore Hook, a SketchJohn Murray, 1852 - Всего страниц: 102 |
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Стр. 82 - To bring my feet again into the snare Where once I have been caught: I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins, and toils; Thy fair enchanted cup and warbling charms No more on me have power, their force is nulled; So much of adder's wisdom I have learnt, To fence my ear against thy sorceries.
Стр. 78 - The corner alluded to will, we suppose, long retain the name which it derived from him, ' Temperance Corner.' Many grave and dignified personages being frequent guests, it would hardly have been seemly to be calling for repeated supplies of a certain description ; but the waiters well understood what the oracle of the corner meant by ' Another glass of toast and water,' or
Стр. 48 - With the rest of the gallantee show. And who were the company, heigh, ma'am, ho, ma'am ? Who were the company, ho ? — We happened to drop in with gemmen from Wapping And ladies from Blowbladder-row, row — Ladies from Blowbladder-row.
Стр. 3 - bought three or four French vaudevilles, and filching an incident from each, made up my very effective drama.' This was ' The Soldier's Return, or What can Beauty do ? a Comic Opera in Two Acts, as performed at the TR Drury Lane. The Overture and Music entirely new, composed by Mr. Hook.
Стр. 40 - Peel. such a startling sensation — it told at once from the convulsed centre to every extremity of the kingdom. There was talent of every sort, apparently, that could have been desired or devised for such a purpose. It seemed as if a legion of sarcastic devils had brooded in synod over the elements of withering derision.
Стр. 18 - Mr. Sheridan was astonished at his extraordinary faculty, and declared that he could not have imagined such power possible, had he not witnessed it. No description, he said, could have convinced him of so peculiar an instance of genius, and he protested that...
Стр. 44 - Would you hear of the triumph of purity ? Would you share in the joy of the Queen ? List to my song, and, in perfect security, Witness a row where you durst not have been : All kinds of addresses, From collars of SS, To venders of cresses, Came up like a fair ; And all through September, October, November, And down to December, They hunted this Hare...
Стр. 28 - ... mental debility ; for the greater the fool the better the dancer. " In short, the whole island is like fairy-land ; every hour seems happier than the last ; the mildness of the air (the sweetness of which, as it passes over spice-plantations and orange-groves, is hardly conceivable), the clearness of the atmosphere, the coolness of the evenings, and the loveliness of the place itself, all combine to render it fascination.
Стр. 93 - His name will be preserved. His political songs and jeux d'esprit, when the hour comes for collecting them, will form a volume of sterling and lasting attraction \ and after many clever romances of this age shall have sufficiently occupied public attention, and sunk, like hundreds of former generations, into utter oblivion^ there are tales in his collection which will be read with even a greater interest than, they commanded in their novelty
Стр. 78 - Cannon— the best singer of dine there once or twice every week of the season, merely for the chance of his being there, and permitting them to draw their chairs to his little table in the course of the evening.