Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and OthersG. P. Putnam's sons, 1860 - 412 strani |
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amusement ANTHONY EVERGREEN ASEM HACCHEM Ballston BASHAW OF TRIPOLI beauty bosom breeches Brummagem bubble and squeak Cæsar character Christopher Cockloft Hall cockney Costive cousin dance dashing blade declared delight Doctor dress ELBOW-CHAIR everything fair fashionable favorite feel fellow fiddle Gallic empire gentle Giblets give Gotham grand hand head heart heaven honest honor humor indulge jack-o'-lantern James Kirke Paulding Jeremy Cockloft Lampedo laugh LAUNCELOT LANGSTAFF LETTER FROM MUSTAPHA Linkum Fidelius logocracy look MILL OF PINDAR MUSTAPHA RUB-A-DUB KELI nation nature never North River nose observed occasion old gentleman once opinion Othello particular patriotic Philadelphia PINDAR COCKLOFT political prodigious readers RUB-A-DUB KELI KHAN sage Salmagundi Sbidlikens slang-whangers smile soul spirit Straddle stranger streets style sweet talk thee thou tion town TRIPOLI true uncle Washington Irving whams whim-whams whole William Irving WILLIAM WIZARD word young ladies youth
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Stran 68 - ... of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people ; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
Stran 279 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Stran 387 - But quitting the nymph of the tripod of yore, We return to the dames of the tea-pot once more. In harmless chit-chat an acquaintance they roast, And serve up a friend, as they serve up a toast ; Some gentle faux pas, or some female mistake...
Stran 85 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Stran 387 - Kobody regrets the thing deeper than I." Our young ladies nibble a good name in play As for pastime they nibble a biscuit away : While with shrugs and surmises, the toothless old dame, As she mumbles a crust she will mumble a name. And as the fell sisters astonished the Scot, In predicting of Banquo's descendants the lot, Making shadows of kings, amid flashes of light To appear in array and to frown in his sight, So they conjure up spectres all hideous in hue, Which, as shades of their neighbors,...