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"Ah, master! master!" says the host, "if you had travelled as far as I have, and conversed with the many nations where I have traded, you would not give any credit to a man's countenance. Symptoms in his countenance, quotha! I would look there, perhaps, to see whether a man had the small-pox, but for nothing else."
And yet, as a matter of fact, no nation possesses in so high a degree the social and civic virtues. The unsociable Englishman, quotha? Why, what country in the world can show such multifarious, vigorous and cordial co-operation, in all ranks, but especially, of course, among the intelligent, for ends which concern the common good? Unsociable!
It is the open secret of all true genius. What does he mean, quotha? He means inspiring hints, a divining-rod to your deeper nature, "plain living and high thinking." We meant only to welcome this book, and not to review it.
"At dice quotha? And she's gone, you say?" asked Mrs. Quinn, pausing in her labours squarely to face her husband. "Aye," said he. "Stupid!" rejoined his docile spouse, vexed by his laconic assent. "Do you mean she has run away?" "Tis what anyone might take from what I have told you," he answered sweetly.
Petulengro, flaring up; "a pretty fellow he to stand up in front of this gentlewoman, a pity he didn't come, quotha? not at all, the fellow is a sneak, afraid of his wife. He stand up against this rawnie! why, the look she has given me would knock the fellow down." "It is easier to knock him down with a look than with a fist," said Mr.
"And," said Stephen, "so please you, brother John, hand us over our portions, and the jewels as bequeathed to us, and we will be gone." "Portions, quotha?" returned John. "Boy, they be not due to you till you be come to years of discretion."
A good old fishwives' ballad jingle is worth all your sapphics and trimeters, and 'riff-raff thurlery bouncing. Hey? have I you there, old lad? Do you mind that precious verse?" "But, dear Wat, Homer and Virgil " "But, dear Ned, Petrarch and Ovid " "But, Wat, what have we that we do not owe to the ancients?" "Ancients, quotha?
'It's something of a disgrace indeed to have touched the beast an oaken staff had been fitter than your hand, she replied. 'Merry England, quotha! drunken England, I suppose he meant. 'There is too much indeed of the unclean spirit of riot abroad now, answered Andrew; 'but it is not with violent hands that we can cast it out.
Why do your young eyes gaze timidly over the sea?" "Where did you crib that quotation from, Flip," asked Power laughing; "your mind's like a shallow brook, and the colour of it always shows the stratum through which you have been flowing last." "Shallow brook, quotha?" said Henderson; "a deep and mighty river, sir, you mean; irresistible by any Power." "Oh, do shut up.
Jones, came up; there was a slight and final exchange of courtesies, and the two Republicans entered the vehicle and were driven away. "Give them five minutes' start, Fair," ordered Cary. "Then call the coach; I want to get back to town for the Washington mail." "You'll get back to town and get to bed!" stormed the other. "'Fire in the air, quotha! I could have brought down a kite from the blue!
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