| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1813 - 310 pages
...approach'd it, with the same lamentation of its captivity, — " I can't get out," said the starling God help thee ! said I, — but ., ' I'll let thee...cost what it will ; so I turned about the cage to get the door : it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...approached it, with the same lamentation of its captivity, — " I can't get out," said the starling. God help thee ! said I, — but I'll let thee out,...cost what it will; so I turned about the cage to get the door : it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...approached it, with the same lamentation of its captivity, — " I can't get out," said the starling. God help thee ! said I, — but I'll let thee out, cost •what it will j so I turned about the cage to get the door : it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1827 - 256 pages
...fix'd by dint of rag and lint, The part was bandag'd up and muffled. The chair unfasten'd, Hunks arose, And shuffled out, for once unshuffled ; And as he went, these words he snuffled— " Well, this is ' paying thro' the nose.' " THE DECLINE OF MRS. SHAKERLY. TOWARDS the close of her... | |
| 1828 - 400 pages
...gentle shower fertilizes the earth ! CM . THE MONKEY-MARTYR. A FAELE. (From Blackwood's Magaeine.) " God help thee, said I, but I'll let thee out, cost what it will ; so I turn'd about the cage to get to the door." STERNE. Tis strange what awkward figures and odd capers... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...approach'd it, with the same lamentation of its captivity, — " I can't get out," said the starling. — God help thee ! said I, — but I'll let thee out,...cost what it will ; so I turned about the cage to get the door: it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1834 - 440 pages
...appi-oach'd it, with the same lamentation of its captivity, — "I can't get out," said the starling. — God help thee ! said I, — but I'll let thee out,...cost what it will ; so I turned about the cage to get the door: it was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...it, with the same lamentation of it* captivity — ' I can't get out,' said the starling. flod Hl ”> rt Chambers the door. It was twisted and double twisted so fa«t with wire ;here was no getting it open without... | |
| Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...they approached it, with the same lamentation of its captivity—"I can't get out," said the starling. God help thee ! said I, but I'll let thee out, cost what it will; so I turned about the cage to get the door. It was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire there was no getting it open without... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...Approached it, with the same lamentation of its captivity — ' I can't get out,' said the starling. God help thee ! said I, but I'll let thee out, cost what it will ; so I turned about the cage to get the door. It was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire there was no getting it open without... | |
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