United States or Benin ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Oh, blind mine eye that would not trace, And deaf mine ear that would not heed The mocking smile upon her face, The mocking voice of greed." When Lady-day came round, Steadfast found to his delight and surprise a little figure dancing out to meet him from Mrs. Lightfoot's. "There, Master Stead.
That was what I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave the academy at Lady-day. I mean to put him to a downright good school at Midsummer. The two years at th' academy 'ud ha' done well enough, if I'd meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor I ever got.
The same innovating spirit which altered the common phrases of salutation, which turned hundreds of Johns and Peters into Scaevolas and Aristogitons, and which expelled Sunday and Monday, January and February, Lady-day and Christmas, from the calendar, in order to substitute Decadi and Primidi, Nivose and Pluviose, Feasts of Opinion and Feasts of the Supreme Being, changed all the forms of official correspondence.
Meadows," cried simple Susan, missing his meaning. Meadows continued in the same tone, "And I must make shift with the one you vacate on Lady-day." "Solomon teach me to outwit this dog." "Come, Mr. Levi, I have visited Mr. Meadows and now I am going to your house." "You shall be welcome, kindly welcome," said the old man with large and flowing courtesy.
On inquiry I find the 3 lb. of sausages to esteemed order was paid for on Lady-day: which on cooler thoughts you will see in the light of a slip as might have happened to anybody. Which in fact it did in this case. P.S. Nanjivell ought to rhyme with civil. What a mistake when it rhymes with D ! Yours faithfully' and I signed my name. Then, on second thoughts, I tacked on another pos'script.
But I'll lay you a wager of a hundred guineas in paper that a marriage of his son with a certain heiress, before next Lady-day, will set all to rights, and pay you with a compliment too." 'Good heavens, Sir Terence! surely you said no such thing?
Such neighbours were in themselves a host, and Mary and her mother both felt as if they had attained a region of unwonted tranquillity and repose, when they had agreed to rent No. 5, Dynevor Terrace, from the ensuing Lady-day, and to take possession when carpenters and upholsterers should have worked their will. Louis was half-way home when he exclaimed, 'There!
"He!" shrieked Isaac, "he dare not! see! see!" and he pointed nearly into the man's eye, "he doesn't look you in the face. Any soul that has read men from east to west can see lion in your eye, young man, and cowardly wolf in his." "Lady-day! Lady-day!" snorted Meadows, who was now shaking with suppressed rage. "Ah!" cried Isaac, and he turned white and quivered in his turn.
Meadows," said he persuasively, "I have lived there twenty years I pay a fair rent but, if you think any one would give you more you shall lose nothing by me I will pay a little more; and you know your rent is secure?" "I do," was the answer. "Thank you, sir! well, then " "Well, then, next Lady-day you turn out bag and baggage.
It is a coincidence worth noticing, that this seventh Satire was published in 1726, and that the warrant of George the First, granting Young a pension of £200 a year from Lady-day, 1725, is dated May 3d, 1726.
Word Of The Day