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Their Authors are of the same Level, fit to represent them on a Mountebank's Stage, or to be Masters of the Ceremonies in a Bear-garden: Yet these are they who have the most Admirers. Lock in the Passage above-mentioned has discovered the most fruitful Source of Wit, so there is another of a quite contrary Nature to it, which does likewise branch it self out into several kinds.
You but played upon me for your own purposes; and nothing short of a Cardinal of Spain, and a Prince of the royal blood of Aragon, was meet to be the instrument of a mountebank's juggle! Madam, yourself and your husband might justly be accused of ambition " "Cease, my Lord," said Nina, with unspeakable dignity; "whatever offence has been committed against you was mine alone.
"Never did a day's work in your life," said Jonah. "Of course he's going," said I, looking up. "Only what as?" "Why not himself?" said Jill. "M, no," said I. "We must find something out of the common. A mountebank's too ordinary. I want our party to be one of the features of the ball." "Would it be asking you too much to shut your face?" said Berry. "Nobody spoke to you.
Perhaps they had escaped from some guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the Barriere d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: Invenerunt parvulum pannis involutum, some mountebank's booth from which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the papers?
Untie the mill-horse, and he will still go round in the same track; let the mountebank's dog be turned loose, and he will still raise himself on his hind-legs; if we would bring them back to their natural gait we must handle them roughly. In like manner, to restore Man to his normal attitude, you must handle him roughly.
Your deeds this evening make the labours of Hercules dwindle to the proportions of mere mountebank's tricks." "Was anybody badly injured?" asked Dumnoff, suddenly aroused by the pleasing recollections of the contest. "I believe not seriously; I think I saw everybody whom you upset get on his feet sooner or later." "Well," said Dumnoff with a sigh, "it cannot be helped. I did my best."
Here you beheld no piles of straw-stuffed game never destined to make the acquaintance of the spit, no fantastical fish to justify the mountebank's remark, "I saw a fine carp to-day; I expect to buy it this day week."
Martin's; and not long after having with a mountebank's method pronounced them worth thousands, impawneth them for a few shillings. Upon festival days he goes to court, and salutes without resaluting; at night in an ordinary he canvasseth the business in hand, and seems as conversant with all intents and plots as if he begot them.
Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense, as they may by reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgment, they soon forsake them."
For it was really she, the mountebank's daughter, whom he had seen a few weeks before, dancing in the market-place of Althausen. By what chance was she still in the neighbourhood, this travelling swallow?
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