The Eccentric Mirror:: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern, who Have Been Particularly Distinguished by Extraordinary Qualifications, Talents, and Propensities, Natural Or Acquired ... With a Faithful Narration of Every Instance of Singularity, Manifested in the Lives and Conduct of Characters who Have Rendered Themselves Eminently Conspicuous by Their Eccentricities, the Whole Exhibiting an Interesting and Wonderful Display of Human Action in the Grand Theatre of the World, Band 1J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row., 1813 |
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Seite 11 - He drank a glass or two of wine at meals; very often syrup of gilliflower in his sack ; and had always a tun glass, without feet, stood by him, holding a pint of small beer which he often stirred with rosemary.
Seite 10 - ... lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick of fourteen inches long lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them.
Seite 9 - ... and huntsmen's poles in abundance. The parlour was a large long room as properly furnished; on a great hearth paved with brick lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick...
Seite 24 - His mind was continually upon the stretch to fmd out some way of supplying this want, and at last he recollected that one of his school-fellows had a book, from which examples of several rules were taken by the master to exercise the scholars. He, therefore...
Seite 36 - At this time he was supposed to be thirteen years old. The king caused him to taste of all the dishes at the royal table ; but he preferred wild plants, leaves, and the bark of trees, which he had lived on from his infancy.
Seite 28 - Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Seite 24 - ... his dominion over other animals, including even the feathered kind. He procured a leveret, and reared it to beat several marches on the drum, with, its hind-legs, until it became a good stout hare.
Seite 11 - ... frequently lost his beast from under him, or, at least from out of his hands, it being his frequent practice to dismount and lead the horse, putting the bridle under his arm, which the horse sometimes shook off, or the intervention of a post occasioned it to fall ; sometimes it was taken off by the boys, when the parson was seen drawing his bridle after him ; and if any one asked him after the animal, he could not give the least account of it, or how he had lost it.
Seite 10 - ... of constant use twice a day all the year round, for he never failed to eat oysters before dinner and supper through all seasons : the neighbouring town of Poole supplied him with them.
Seite 7 - It was in vain even for the English generals to oppose with their soldiers the prevailing opinion of supernatural influence: they themselves were...