 | Richard Graves - 1774 - 388 Seiten
...Jix-pences (as his laying was), he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoofe to flop at the firft public-houfe they fhould come to. But there was none till, they came to Tetbury; where they went into a fecond-rate inn, for fear of meeting with the fame infultswhich they had received at the Bell at Glou.--... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1774 - 386 Seiten
...fix-peaces (as his faying was), he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoofe to flop at the firft public-houfe they fhould come to. But there was none till they came to Tetbury ; where they went into a fecond-rate inn, for fear of meeting with the fame irrfults which tliey had received at the Bell at... | |
 | Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland - 1890 - 442 Seiten
...des pieces de dix sous." He had thought it rather a dry discourse ; and beginning to spit sixpences, he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoose to stop at the first public-house they should come ta.—Gravu : Spiritual Qttixotr. Splash (common), complexion powder, as rice powder, &c. To splash,... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer - 1904 - 396 Seiten
...pagan still, I should not have SI-IT WIIITK lor want of drink. 1772. GRAVES, Spiritual Quixote, iv. vi. He had thought it rather a dry discourse ; and beginning...stop at the first public-house they should come to. WHITE-APRON, subs. pkr. (old).— A whore : see TART. 1599. HALL, Satires, iv. i. Or midnight play*,,... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1926 - 300 Seiten
...conversant, such as the Travels of Joseph of Arimathea — the History of Glastonbury Thorn — or any romantic accounts of the Holy Land, and the like,...which they had received at the Bell at Gloucester. CHAP. VII A Hurley-hurley in the modern Taste WILDGOOSE having been thoroughly fatigued the preceding... | |
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Thorn — or any romantic accounts of the Holy Land, and the like, he had thought it rather a dry discourse, and beginning to spit sixpences, as his saying was, he gave hints to Mr. Wildgoose to stop at the first public-house they should come to. But... 