A Dictionary of Literary ConversationJ. Ridgway, 1785 - 148 sivua |
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Sivu 15 - They cannot lie down, nor lean, without keeping the neck straight ; and the country being very woody, it is not uncommon to find them with their head-dress entangled in the trees. Whenever they comb their hair, they pass an hour by the fire in melting the wax ; but this combing is only performed once or twice a year.
Sivu 14 - China small round eyes are liked ; and the girls are continually plucking their eye-brows, that they may be thin and long. The Turkish women dip a gold brush in the tincture of a black drug, which they pass over their eye-brows. It is too visible by day, but looks shining by night. They tinge their nails with a rose-colour.
Sivu 61 - Bar to the furthest part of Cheapside, to tell at his return every sign as it stood in order on both sides of the way, repeating them either backwards or forwards ; and he did it exactly.
Sivu 134 - Not so neither ; for if I changed my religion, I am sure I kept true to my principle ; which is, to live and die the vicar of Bray!
Sivu 64 - The cries of fear and of pain were drowned in the martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs; and experience has proved that the mechanical operation of sounds, by quickening the circulation of the blood and spirits, will act on the human machine more forcibly than the eloquence of reason and honour.
Sivu 65 - Sir," answered he with warmth, " you did wrong in forbidding the pipes to play this morning ; nothing encourages Highlanders so much in a day of action. Nay, even now they would be of use."—" Let them blow, then," replied the general, " if it will bring back the men.
Sivu 30 - When a hog is carried to market with a rope tied about its neck, which is held at the other end by a man, whether is the hog carried to market by the rope or the man ?" In the tenth century (says Jortin in his remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Vol.
Sivu 131 - Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd , can never be fupply'd.
Sivu 65 - The pipes were ordered to play a favourite martial air. The Highlanders, the moment they heard the music, returned and formed with alacrity in the rear. In the late war in India, Sir Eyre Coote, after the battle of Porto...
Sivu 13 - She gave him for her marriage dower the rich provinces of Poitou and Guienne : and this was the origin of those wars which for three hundred years ravaged France, and cost the French nation about three millions of men.