History of George Godfrey, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1828 |
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Page 184 - Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Page 236 - ... Fourteen hundred new fives !" " Where, where — fourteen hundred new fives — now for a look ; where is he — Go it, go it !" were the cries raised on all sides by the crowd, which rallied about my person like a swarm of bees. And then Mo, by way of proceeding to business, repeating the war cry, staggered sideways against me, so as almost to knock me down.
Page 235 - I turned to the right, and found myself in a spacious apartment, which was nearly filled with persons more respectable in appearance than the crew I had left at the door. Curious to see all that was to be seen, I began to scrutinize the place and the society into which I had intruded' But I was prevented from indulging the reflections which began to suggest themselves, by the conduct of those about me. A curly-haired Jew, with a face as yellow as a guinea, stopped plump before me, fixed his black...
Page 235 - A curly-haired Jew, with a face as yellow as a guinea, stopped plump before me, fixed his black round leering eyes full on me, and exclaimed without the slightest anxiety about my hearing him, ' So help me Got, Mo, who is he?' Instead of replying in a straightforward way, Mo raised his voice as loud as he could, and shouted with might and main — ' Fourteen hundred new fives ! ' A hundred voices repeated the mysterious exclamation.
Page 238 - ... squeaked a small imp-like person, affecting sympathy, and then trying to renew the sport. "How would you like it yourself," cried another, "if you were a stranger?" shaking his sandy locks with a knowing look, and knocking off my hat as he spoke. I made a desperate blow at this offender. It did not take effect from the expedition with which he retreated, and I had prudence enough to reflect that it would be better to recover my hat than to pursue the enemy. Turning round, I saw my unfortunate...
Page 232 - in such company as I had never seen before. Gay sparks, with their hats placed on one side, and their hands in their breeches pockets, walked up and down with a magnificent strut, whistling most harmoniously, or occasionally humming an Italian air. Several grave personages stood in close consultation, scowling on all who approached, and seeming to reprehend my intrusion. Some lads, whose faces announced their Hebrew origin, and whose miscellaneous finery was finely emblematical of rag fair, passed...
Page 239 - Covered with perspiration, foaming with rage, and almost expiring from heat and exhaustion, I at last succeeded. I did not dare to reinstate it, but was forced to grasp it with both hands, in order to save what remained of it. I baffled several desperate snatches, one of which carried away the lining, and was now trying to keep the enemy at bay, afraid again to attack the host opposed to me, but not knowing how to retreat, when a person who had not previously made himself conspicuous, approached...
Page 237 - Mo, with such violence, that had he not been supported by a string of his friends, he must infallibly have fallen before me. Being thus backed, however, he was enabled to withstand the shock, and to give me a new impulse in the direction of the Scotchman, who, awaiting my return, treated me with another hoist as before, and I found these two worthies were likely to amuse themselves with me as with a shuttlecock, for the next quarter of an hour. I struggled violently to extricate myself from this...
Page 238 - You ought to be ashamed of yourself to use the gentleman in that sort of way," squeaked a small imp-like person, affecting sympathy, and then trying to renew the sport. "How would you like it yourself," cried another, "if you were a stranger?
Page 278 - Company," is supposed to be projected. From the writer's position, it is very probable that much of his presumed fiction was fact. " Why, you talk," says one of the characters, " as if we had any real business to transact. All we have to do is to puff our shares up to a premium, humbug the public into buying them, and then let the whole concern go to ruin.