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Pagina 4
... tell my story in the off - hand fashion of the present day . It is not fair to lay hold of my courteous reader by the button , and inflict on him the un- necessary twaddle that shall dub me " bore . " Well ; the gallant -th were ...
... tell my story in the off - hand fashion of the present day . It is not fair to lay hold of my courteous reader by the button , and inflict on him the un- necessary twaddle that shall dub me " bore . " Well ; the gallant -th were ...
Pagina 7
... tell you what you are dying to hear - that on the next quarter of an hour the happiness for life of two persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ...
... tell you what you are dying to hear - that on the next quarter of an hour the happiness for life of two persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ...
Pagina 10
... tell an old worn - out veteran's tale of a scurry for liberty and life . It was during the winter , celebrated for that wonderful and elaborate scheme of de- fence , so successfully carried out by the most skillful warrior of the age ...
... tell an old worn - out veteran's tale of a scurry for liberty and life . It was during the winter , celebrated for that wonderful and elaborate scheme of de- fence , so successfully carried out by the most skillful warrior of the age ...
Pagina 17
... tell , on investigation , how and why the Buyer has been at fault . If , on the contrary , the Buyer has narrowly watched the public taste , and fed it success- fully , -if he has been vigilant in getting early possession of the most ...
... tell , on investigation , how and why the Buyer has been at fault . If , on the contrary , the Buyer has narrowly watched the public taste , and fed it success- fully , -if he has been vigilant in getting early possession of the most ...
Pagina 31
... tell . It was people which one would desire to meet by known only to the police - there was an ap - moonlight alone . prehension of some attempt at a rescue , If ever ghosts are permitted to return to " Who is inclined to see Fieschi's ...
... tell . It was people which one would desire to meet by known only to the police - there was an ap - moonlight alone . prehension of some attempt at a rescue , If ever ghosts are permitted to return to " Who is inclined to see Fieschi's ...
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Pagina 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Pagina 396 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Pagina 254 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Pagina 3 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Pagina 1 - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
Pagina 518 - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
Pagina 1 - Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Pagina 130 - There's not a flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again: I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high: I long to see a flower so before the day I die.
Pagina 2 - ... first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and when I rode a little slower, she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice, and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me. When she did, I observed her to be in tears.
Pagina 96 - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.