The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

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Jenson Society, 1905
 

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247. lappuse - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
247. lappuse - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
27. lappuse - Then the young lawyer began his narrative to this effect : " I tell ye what, gemmen, I don't pretend in this here case to flourish and harangue like a — having never been called to — but what of that, d'ye see ? — perhaps I may know as much as — facts are facts, as the saying is. I shall tell, repeat, and relate a plain story — matters of fact, d'ye see, without rhetoric, oratory, ornament, or embellishment ; without repetition, tautology, circumlocution, or going about the bush...
232. lappuse - ... moreover, with force of arms, that is to say, with swords, staves, and other warlike instruments, by turns, made an assault and affray, to the terror and disturbance of him and divers subjects of our lord the king, then and there being, and to the evil and pernicious example of the liege people of the said lord the king, and against the peace of our said lord the king, his crown, and dignity.
83. lappuse - Set thy heart at ease, Tom," cried the seaman, "I'll have a trip to and again in this here channel. Mad ! what then ? I think for my part one half of the nation is mad — and the other not very sound...
202. lappuse - Aurelia expressed great impatience to view the cruel forgery, for such she assured him it must be : but he could not gratify her desire till the arrival of his servant with the portmanteau. In the mean time, tea was called.
18. lappuse - What! (said Ferret) you set up for a modern Don Quixote? — The scheme is rather too stale and extravagant. — What was an humorous romance, and well-timed satire in Spain, near two hundred years ago, will make but a sorry jest, and appear equally insipid and absurd, when really acted from affectation, at this time a-day, in a country like England.

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