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"Most girls go through with it safely; but I well I was the simple sprat that was caught! "He was returning to Millerton after a long absence," she went on; "his people were well known there. He appeared to be perfectly mad about me; and my poor little head was quite turned.
But—I say—is it really such a very small thing as you make it out?” “Do you know what may be done with a sprat?” the Assistant Commissioner asked in his turn.
'A learned prelate accidentally met Bentley in the days of Phalaris; and after having complimented him on that noble piece of criticism (the Answer to the Oxford Writers) he bad him not be discouraged at this run upon him, for tho' they had got the laughers on their side, yet mere wit and raillery could not long hold out against a work of so much merit. To which the other replied, "Indeed Dr. S. [Sprat], I am in no pain about the matter. For I hold it as certain, that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself." Warburton on Pope, iv. 159, quoted in Person's Tracts, p. 345. 'Against personal abuse, says Hawkins (Life, p. 348), 'Johnson was ever armed by a reflection that I have heard him utter: "Alas! reputation would be of little worth, were it in the power of every concealed enemy to deprive us of it." He wrote to Baretti: 'A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Ante, i. 381. Voltaire in his Essay Sur les inconvéniens attachés
The day on which it had been intended that the whole body of the priesthood should be summoned to answer for the crime of disobedience arrived. The High Commission met. It appeared that scarcely one ecclesiastical officer had sent up a return. At the same time a paper of grave import was delivered to the board. It came from Sprat, Bishop of Rochester.
"Certainly, sir," upon which the waiter, giving it a loud ring upon the table, ran out of the room. "Now, gentlemen and ladies! pray, come, time's hup carn't wait must go" roars the guard, as the passengers shuffle themselves into their coats, cloaks, and cravats, and Joe "Boots" runs up the passage with the ladder for the lady. "Now, my dear Mrs. Sprat, good-bye.
His wife was henceforth styled by the courtiers Dowager Duchess of Buckingham. It is worthy of mention that the Rev. Thomas Sprat in good time became Bishop of Rochester, and, it is written, "an ornament to the church among those of the highest order." One of the most extraordinary characters which figured in this reign was Thomas Blood, sometimes styled colonel.
Opie's 'White Lies' and the 'Potted Sprats? My asthma has proved a sprat, and there is a clay pipe at this moment waiting for me in the kitchen, and pretty soon you will see me puffing like a coal-pit. Do you suppose they will make me vomit?"
I have mentioned presents, a vexed question in the South Seas; and one which well illustrates the common, ignorant habit of regarding races in a lump. In many quarters the Polynesian gives only to receive. And perhaps everywhere, among the greedy and rapacious, a gift is regarded as a sprat to catch a whale.
So I took Courage, and bade Despair go Swing for a dried Yeoman Sprat as he is. I being a Servant, and so unjustly accounted of Base Degree by these Sour-Cabbage gorging and Sourer-Beer swilling High Dutch Bed-Pressers, was put into the Common Ward with the Raff; while my Master was suffered, on Payment of Fees, to have better lodgings.
Yet they say there is no better brain in the August assembly, and he certainly made us a wonderful speech last time the Australians were over. All round he is a whale for theory and a sprat for practice but he looks quite capable of both at crime!"
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