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Pagina 86
... Clodhead , one of the prominent candidates for speaker . His outside was quite im- posing . His merits had been very fully presented to Sterling by his friends . He had been a long time in public life , and was distinguished by the ...
... Clodhead , one of the prominent candidates for speaker . His outside was quite im- posing . His merits had been very fully presented to Sterling by his friends . He had been a long time in public life , and was distinguished by the ...
Pagina 87
... Clodhead was dis- coursing , in a mild , modest way , upon the necessity of partisan organization , and the sublime ... Clodhead . Mr. Clodhead saw the name on the card . Taking his hat , he remarked : " This is the card of one of my ...
... Clodhead was dis- coursing , in a mild , modest way , upon the necessity of partisan organization , and the sublime ... Clodhead . Mr. Clodhead saw the name on the card . Taking his hat , he remarked : " This is the card of one of my ...
Pagina 88
... Clodhead , " you are an active man . It is impossible to get ahead of you ! " Rising , he continued , good - humoredly , " I give you over to our young friend , General Sterling . " So saying he bowed himself out . " As a young ...
... Clodhead , " you are an active man . It is impossible to get ahead of you ! " Rising , he continued , good - humoredly , " I give you over to our young friend , General Sterling . " So saying he bowed himself out . " As a young ...
Pagina 92
... Clodhead is the man for our party . I have heard enough to convince me that his election is sure . Pustleponch won't do . He has crotchets in his head , is too much inclined to run off into abstractions- an innovator , sir , the most ...
... Clodhead is the man for our party . I have heard enough to convince me that his election is sure . Pustleponch won't do . He has crotchets in his head , is too much inclined to run off into abstractions- an innovator , sir , the most ...
Pagina 93
... Clodhead is as stern as December , as furious as March , and as unrelenting as a terrapin - sir , thunder ca'nt move him ; when his jaws fall , they are thar , sir , thar ! he is our man . " This period was closed by the falling of ...
... Clodhead is as stern as December , as furious as March , and as unrelenting as a terrapin - sir , thunder ca'nt move him ; when his jaws fall , they are thar , sir , thar ! he is our man . " This period was closed by the falling of ...
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bank Beatrice beautiful bells are ringing Belvedere Belvedere's bets Blunderbuss bright eyes cards chamber CHAPTER charmed child cigar Clodhead cologne Colonel countenance curls Curtis Dash dealer dear delight devil doctor dollars a day door Ernest exclaimed eyes face favorite felt fingers friends Ganymede gentle graceful guitar hair hand head heart Helen hundred dollars Jump-up kissed knew laugh leaning leave lifted Lily Lily's ling lips long watching looked lost Maggie Miss Pembroke morning Mozart neck never night Paganini parlor paused Placid play Plunket pocket politicians prince Pustleponch remarked replied retired rosy Rozzin seat seemed Senator Burton sleep smiles speaker spirit Ster Sterling Sterling's sweet Tar River Thimblerigg thing thought thousand dollars tion tones touched tremulous Tristram Shandy turned Vereprompt violin voice walked Wiregrass young
Populaire passages
Pagina 28 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Pagina 180 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Pagina 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Pagina 156 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Pagina 22 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pagina 21 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Pagina 196 - ... it is that feigning notable images of virtues, vices, or what else, with that delightful teaching, which must be the right describing note to know a poet by.
Pagina 227 - Whosoever hath anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.
Pagina 22 - If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music...