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He ran forward, but the man hurried across the little square and disappeared in the darkness. Odo had not seen his face; but though his dress was tattered, and he leaned on a beggar's staff, something about his broad rolling back recalled the well-filled outline of Cantapresto's cassock.
Many great ones Would part with half their states, to have the plan And credit to beg in the first style. Beggar's Bush. Old Edie was stirring with the lark, and his first inquiry was after Steenie and the pocket-book.
He grew angry, and called out loudly, 'Nay, when you both speak at once, it is intolerable. But checking himself, and softening, he said, 'This one may say, though you ARE ladies. Then he brightened into gay humour, and addressed them in the words of one of the songs in The Beggar's Opera: 'But two at a time there's no mortal can bear. The contrast between Macheath, Polly, and Lucy and Dr.
There is not as much metaphysics in thirty-six of the people here as there is in the first page of Locke's "Treatise on the Human Understanding," or as much poetry as in any ten lines of the "Pleasures of Hope," or more natural "Beggar's Petition." I never entangle myself in any of their speculations. Interruptions, if I try to write a letter even, I have dreadful.
Gay, as a poet, was respectable, but poor, unfortunate, a hanger on of great people, and miserably paid for his sycophancy. His fame rests on his Fables and his Beggar's Opera. Prior first made himself distinguished by his satire called A City Mouse and a Country Mouse, aimed against Dryden. He was well rewarded by government, and was sent as minister to Paris.
There were beggars in the street but they only add by way of contrast to the effulgence of our procession. And, besides, are they beggars? Augustus Caesar attired himself in beggar's clothes one day each year and asked alms in the highways of Rome. I begin to notice something. An expression in our faces as we drift by the fastidious ballyhoos of the shop windows.
They went to the shed where the cart had been and followed the tracks out to the road. Even on the road they were easy to see for besides being wider than any other cart tracks they shone white like glistening silver. "H'm! H'm!" murmured the two rich brothers. "You don't think either of you have time to follow them to the Beggar's house?" the Poor Man said. "No! Of course not!
"He shall grant thee whatever thou dost list, Isaac," said the Captain; "and thou shalt lay down the redemption money for Prior Aymer as well as for thyself." "For myself! ah, courageous sirs," said the Jew, "I am a broken and impoverished man; a beggar's staff must be my portion through life, supposing I were to pay you fifty crowns." "The Prior shall judge of that matter," replied the Captain.
Beggar's Opera. After the death of Mr. Bertram, Mannering had set out upon a short tour, proposing to return to the neighbourhood of Ellangowan before the sale of that property should take place.
"Then the beggar's countenance changed, a deep flush of anger overspread his features, and drawing himself up to his full height, he said, with solemn voice, addressing the host: "'Thou hast robbed my father all the days of his life, and thou hast robbed the orphan. May the curse of God be upon you!
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