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38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many loved truth and lavished life's best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last for guerdon of their toil With the cast mantle she had left behind her. Many in sad faith sought for her, Many with crossed hands sighed for her, But these our brothers fought for h... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must go to her and excuse my shyness on the ground that I cannot tolerate explaining my difficulties in person. Tell her the need I am in. That Italy is the place to get a degree; explain to her how much more honour I am likely to do her than those theologians she keeps abou... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Omne majus continent in se minus ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The greater includes the less"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A scholar of great acquirements and of no mean genius; hardy and inventive, eloquent and witty; he might have been an ornament... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've brought your wig home, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, ah, replied the doctor;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I can't leave it, sir--that is, without the money."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, very well, then. I'll try it... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Count Haines. It is said that he was arrested one morning by two bailiffs for a debt of £20, when he saw a bishop, to whom he was related, passing along in his coach. With ready resource he immediately saw a loophole for escape, and, turning to the men he said,"
},
{
"fr... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sun, a tavern in Clare Market, he threw himself out of the coach window and through the open window of the tavern parlour, just as the driver was about to draw up. The man then descended from the box, touched his hat, and stood waiting for his passenger to alight. Finding at len... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you say to dining with me to-day? Lord This, and Sir So-and-so That (mentioning several celebrities),"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You see that stout, goodtempered-looking man in such and such a box?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Immediately the act-drop is down go to him; have a boy who can bow gracefully precede you with a pair of wax can... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that of a schemer. He lived in an atmosphere of duns, but such a thorough master was he of the subject that it was the tradesmen who eventually were"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by him. It was customary for them to assemble early in the morning to catch him before ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, that is the only man I ever envied. When at school in this town, we were candidates for a chorister's place and he obtained it. When seventeen, there was no prospect for the clever youth but the drudgery of trade, and on this becoming known in the school there was a general ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear brother,--I live very economically; I dine at home for a shilling, go to the coffee-house once a day, 4_d._, to the theatre once a week, 3_s._ 6_d._ My pen will keep me in pocket-money. I this day begin a job which I must finish in a fortnight, and for which I am promise... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ever since I can remember, he writes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have had a taste for mechanics, but the best mechanician wants materials and materials cost money,"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Sugar 'em, and butter 'em, and clap 'em in your muns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and had to return for more to the wholesale establishment, the dif... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I learned grammar, he says,"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have forgotten me, Mr. Burritt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, said he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm the boy to whom you gave the watch. I'm now a student of Harvard College."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should like to have... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am, sir, Your obedient, humble servant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "H. DAVY."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His work excites admiration, but contact with him warms and elevates the heart. Here, surely, is a strong man. I love strength, but let me n... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "M. FARADAY."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When they came to London in the autumn of 1751 the fashionable world went mad after"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--it is believed he wrote for the magazines, etc., as a means of support--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I rise at half-past four. I have contrived a machine after the manner of an hour-glass, which wakens me regularly at that hour. Exactly over my head I have suspe... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as having to tear up the floor of a dwelling, most other instances might be expected to appear more or less tame; but the experiences of William Thom, the Inverary poet, are scarcely inferior in intensity. This untutored, but extremely sweet songster, whose first poem, 'Blind Bo... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have known both hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human endurance. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman, and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character to avoid a heavier calamity. My distre... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An old fox broad sword, and a good black gown, And thus old Henry came to London Town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must have been a rare time for clergymen of the Church of England when a navy chaplain is found on such intimate terms with"
},
{
"from": ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Rivers, it is alleged, looked on the boy as his own, but his mother seems always to have disliked him; and the fact that Lady Mason, the mother of the countess, looked after the child's education, and had him put to a Grammar School at St. Albans, certainly favours the view... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Young Men, inviting all spirited young fellows to make their fortunes as common soldiers in the East India Company's Service. After reading it over a second time he determined without hesitation to hasten off and enroll himself in that honourable corps, when he met with a per... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have all my life had a violent antipathy to soldiers and horses, and the soone... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Comberback!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you come here for, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For what most other persons come, to be made a soldier!"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there was a hitch, two shillings were requisite to enlist two recruits, and there was only one shilling. We proposed that he should enlist one of us with it, and that this one should then lend it to him to enlist the other. But his wife would not have the enlistment done in ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I really don't give myself the credit of being so irresistible as you have fancied me. There is one thing, though, which I think I _am_ able to do. Whenever I am arrested I can always persuade the sheriff's officer to bail me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Orato... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flaxman is ruined for an artist! But his mistake was soon made manifest. When Mrs. Flaxman heard of the remark, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us work and economize. It shall never be said that Ann Denham ruined John Flaxman as an artist;"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray stay, said he, as he laid down the silver tweezers with which he had just removed a straggling hair,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and many other dainties that he enumerated with becoming gastronomic fervour, but which failed to overcome the scruples of the you... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well I think I shall dine there too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you haven't an invitation, have you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, was the reply;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I did not see the pie on the table."
},
{
... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a divinity doth shape our ends, rough-hew them how we will, admits that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, which certainly looks as if we had something to do with the matter."
... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The journey, effected with a horse and cart, had been extremely trying, because across the road they had travelled ran a small rivulet, which was frozen, and a passage through which had to be made for the horse, the driver standing upon the shafts across the back of the horse, w... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I envy him fiercely, as he goes out, though, God wot, his bedchamber may be but a squalid attic, and his bed a tattered hop-sack, with a slop great-coat from the emporium of Messrs. Melchisedek & Son, and which he had been working at all day, for a coverlid. I envy his children ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TATE WILKINSON."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "E. KNIGHT."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "TATE WILKINSON."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you could write like that, I could soon find you an engagement."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At last he became so necessitous that he petitioned James the First for a licence to collect alms for himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--which petition was granted by letters patent under the Great Seal, permitting him to seek assistance from all well-disposed... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some parsons would halloo enough to raise the whole house and home of the domestics to raise a poor crown; at last all that flutter ends in sending Jack or Tom out to change a guinea, and then 'tis reckoned over half-a-dozen times before the fatal crown can be picked out, which ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! all this for a song? Whereupon the Queen replied,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then give him what is reason."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rime; (_sic_) From that time unto this season I received ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full little knowest thou, that hast not try'd What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days that might be better spent, To wast long nights in pensive discontent: To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow: To have thy Pri... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Despair in that canto, and betrayed an unusual kind of transport on the discovery of so new and uncommon a genius. After he had read some verses he called his steward, and bade him give the person who brought those verses £50; but upon reading the next stanza, he ordered the sum... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am every moment threatened to be turned out here, because I have not money to pay for my bed two nights past, which is usually paid beforehand; and I am loth to go into the Compter, till I can see if my affairs can possibly be made up. I hope, therefore, you will have the huma... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "though in one sense it certainly is curious that their wants should not have been recognised. Men like Henry Carey or Cary, the author of 'Sally in our Alley,' and said by some to be the composer of the National Anthem, who was considered by all authorities to be a true son of t... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Clarke sat on a broken chair by a little scrap of fire, and the visitors were accommodated with a rickety deal board. A half-starved dog lay at the authoress's feet; a cat sat on one hob, and a monkey on the other; while a magpie perched on the back of its mistress's chair.... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, said he to the creditors,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The redemption referred to his property, all of which he gave up, retiring into modest lodgings, where he zealously set to work to accomplish the Herculean task of writing off the gigantic sum named.... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace! There was not peace even in death, and the creditor pursued him even into the 'waste wide,' even to the coffin. He was lying in state, when a gentleman in the deepest mourning called, it is said, at the house, and introducing himself as an old and much-attached friend of ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow, And friendship so false in the great and high-born, To think what a long line of titles may follow, The relics of him who died friendless and lorn! How proud they can press to the funeral array Of him whom they shunned in his sic... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which assertion can be supported by the accepted axiom"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jewing the Jew. The case involved an indictment brought by one omnibus company against another for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(that is, too closely following one another for the purpose of driving the rival off the road), and the trial lasted over three days. For... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, replied the bailiff;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The messenger, who was an actor thoroughly accustomed to"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the manager consequently open to discuss any scheme for pulling up the business. In a moment Philippe saw his opportunity, and suggested that two or three special performances should be given, at which every person paying for admission should have with his check a packet of ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His first berth of any consequence was a clerkship in a general store, at which time he was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but, says he,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I determined to have some money. Consequently, impelled by impecuniosity, he speedily... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, said Winde,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a ruined man, and unless I have your word of honour that the debts shall be paid, I will instantly throw myself over."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to become of me?"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible to get rid of them? asked his friends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, simply that these lordly retainers are bailiffs with an execution, replied Steele, adding that"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! said the watchmaker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was at the theatre a little while ago, and he was in a terrible rage with you--said he had been waiting for you since one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed, said Sheridan;"
},
{
"fro... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and refused, unless he had something to show that he would get his money's worth, or at any rate a portion of it. Thereupon Hook went home, sat up all night, wrote an introduction to a novel"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "funny, being connected with a once well-known theologian--Dr. John Brown of Haddington. This famous Biblical commentator, who flourished from 1784 to 1858, was anything but rich in this world's goods; and so poor when staying at Dunse, that he went into a shop and asked to be ac... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bedford: where, as the wine began to take effect, his unclad condition began to be perceivable, and he was questioned as to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, said Foote--the stockingless Foote--"
},
{
"from": "g... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which request was granted. She then took a house in Nelson Square, and became a reigning queen of pleasure, her Thursday evening _réunions_ being deemed so delightful, that invitations for them were most eagerly sought for. Her admirers were legion (that is of the male sex), one... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trueman. 'Most of 'em, except Lown, Taylor, and Pollard, who were superannuated, went into the King's army, and, like good men and true, served their old master, though in a different, yet more honourable, capacity. Robinson was killed at the taking of a place (I think Basing Ho... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By dint of piecing out the skirt of one dress it was made to answer for an under-skirt, and then another dress was taken in in every direction to do duty as an over-dress, and so make up the costume. And thus I essayed for the first time the part of Lady Macbeth."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How the clerk should designate him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Call me, replied the actor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charles Macklin, a vagabond by Act of Parliament"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Considering the strong vernacular accent with which Mr. Macklin (then MacLaughlin) spoke, the reader would be at a loss to account for the applause which he met with on his first appearance, if he was not told that Bristol has always been so much inhabited by the Irish that thei... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After supping with 'Lady Hawley,' Macklin made his bow and retired to the room where the luggage was stored. Here he undressed himself and adopted the following humorous expedient: He instantly arrayed himself in the dress of Emilia in the 'Moor of Venice' (a part he occasionall... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hallo, guv'nor, said he;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wat's yer been a doin' on? Run away from home?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got no home now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where do you come from?"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You've come from a long way off, young un--ain't yer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yer seems awfully tired. Why I do b'lieve as yer a crying. Wot's the matter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've no home, and no relatives or friends to go to; and I do... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you like, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll take you to the super-master; he lives close by in Hatton Garden, all amongst the Italians on the Hill."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's your name, my man?"
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall not forget it. It's the name of the first super I ever saw with brains."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He has an impediment in his speech,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and costume, one being a comic nigger with songs. Miss Glover had taken the theatre under the pressure of impecuniosity, trusting to the chance of success for the payment of her company. At the end of... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir! said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was never so insulted in all my life!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's wrong, madam? Who has insulted you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who has insulted me, sir! Why you have!"
},
{
... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have heard Mr. Mathews say that he has gone to the theatre at night without having tasted anything since a meagre breakfast, determined to refuse to go on the stage unless some portion of his arrears was first paid. When, however,... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One morning before the rehearsal commenced, I was crossing the stage, when my attention was attracted by the sounds of loud applause issuing from the direction of the green-room. I enquired the cause, and was told that it was only little Kean reciting 'Richard III.' My informant... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "one evening before an audience at Sadler's Wells, a country manager, then present, was so much impressed by the declamation of the lad, that young Kean received an offer to play leading characters for twenty nights at the York Theatre. The offer was accepted, he was highly succe... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and criticising his enaction in Otway's pathetic drama said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He plays the part very, very well, but there is too little of him wherewith to make a great actor."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rolla, before the Braintree audience. While performing he fainted, and an illness of fever and ague was the consequence of his swimming expedition. On recovering he tramped all the way to Swansea, and played in that town. He was then in his twentieth year. Proceeding to Gloucest... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I played the part finely, and yet they would not applaud me! The actor grew moody, splenetic, and gave way to insobriety. A son born to him at this period he named Howard; and it was soon after the birth of the child that the Keans left Swansea, with Cherry, for other towns in t... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first venture was profitable, and the showman went on making money, and saved it. He then set up a show theatre, succeeded so well that year after year he had to enlarge it, and at last it became the largest in the kingdom. Richardson likewise established a character for hon... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's up now, boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Money, money. It's a swindle!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hark at 'em now. Murder and Moses! there's broths of boys for yer. Money's just what I want myself. Think of your Cathedral ground; who lies... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arrested on a Saturday night, they had to remain in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "throughout Sunday. On Monday morning they were taken up before the magistrates, and arraigned upon a somewhat extraordinary charge. An inhabitant of Whitehaven, a person to whom cr... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, sir! Bring your beggarly actors into this town to demoralize the people? No, sir. I'll have no such profligacy in Romford; poor people shall not be wheedled out of their money by your tomfooleries. The first player that comes here I'll clap in the stocks as a rogue and a v... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White Hart"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kind-hearted considerate Ben, writes his remembrancer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Red Cow, where they announced"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A London company for two nights, with 'Pizarro,' as ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lydia Languish by a young lady, her first appearance."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Coutts, Esq., to Miss Harriet Mellon, of Holly Lodge, Highgate."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ranted and strutted, and in the tent scene, after,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Richard's himself again, on the entrance of Catesby, the tailor in answer to Richard's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's there? halted, and stuttered"
},
{
"fro... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bob, on one occasion said Macklin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I intend to have you arrested for the debt you owe me, but I am considering whether I shall arrest you before or after your benefit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, said Mahon,"
},
... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can I get in for 'little business,' and utility?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there any chance for harlequin, and dancing?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monday: 'Widow of Palermo'--Jeremy (with a handful of snuff and a glass of water thrown in his face), 10-1/2_d._; 'Is he Jealous?'--Belmour, 9-1/2_d._; 'Young Widow'--Splash, 1_s._ 1-1/2_d._ Tuesday: 'Englishman in France; or, Why Didn't I Kill Myself Yesterday?'--James, 9-1/2_d... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why pay Jenkins? Why not pay me? You've used me shamefully, and you must take the consequences."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Mr. Mathews! how d'ye do? Glad to see you. Have a glass of sherry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, thank you. I want a couple of hundred pounds to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly, with pleasure. How long do you want it for? Have ... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Mathews, I find I can't manage the £200. I can only let you have £150. I had no idea I was so short at my bankers. Amount actually overdrawn. But I've got a friend to do it for you; it's all the same. He'll be here directly. Bless me, how long he is. Have a glass of sh... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a job Dick's had for you, Mr. Matthews! But here I am with the money. My friend disappointed me, but I managed without him. My nephew will read over the warrant of attorney."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I'm just going on the stage; there's no time now."
... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not paid! Gribble's cheque not paid--some mistake--it's as good as the Bank. Here, give it to me, I'll get it for you in five minutes. How long shall you be here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An hour."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll be back in twe... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, said Mathews,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It means that I paid your debt as I knew you couldn't, and now you owe it me instead. Be punctual, and I'll do as much again."
}
] |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In a word, said Mathews,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I really could not afford the price of cabs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should have thought that cabs were more economical than a private carriage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Precisely in the degree in which any painter possesses original genius, is at present the increase of moral certainty that during his early years he will have a hard battle to fight: and that just at the time when his conceptions ought to be full and happy, his temper gentle, an... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The genius of painting, sculpture, and architecture relieving the distressed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Behold, reader, the united claims of virtue, old age, and professional merit, and filial and parental suffering. It also expressed a not unreasonable hope tha... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and afterwards devoted himself to engraving on copper coats of arms and ornamental headings for shop bills, creeping upwards from such"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to more ambitious efforts, until at last he made a hit by illustrating 'Hudibras,' the commission for... |
38439 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its first and great fault is its being too new, and having too great a resemblance to the objects it represents; if this appears a paradox, you ought to take particular care in confessing it. This picture has too much of the lustre, of that despicable freshness which we discover... |
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