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Pagina 318
... Matilda was , at the age of six years , sent out of her father's house ; and received by her mother with all the tenderness , but with all the anguish of those parents who be- hold their offspring visited by the punishment due only to ...
... Matilda was , at the age of six years , sent out of her father's house ; and received by her mother with all the tenderness , but with all the anguish of those parents who be- hold their offspring visited by the punishment due only to ...
Pagina 319
... Matilda as his child - or acknowledging her as such- never to see , to hear of , or take one concern what- ever in her fate and fortune . The death of her mother appeared a favourable time , had he been so inclined , to have recalled ...
... Matilda as his child - or acknowledging her as such- never to see , to hear of , or take one concern what- ever in her fate and fortune . The death of her mother appeared a favourable time , had he been so inclined , to have recalled ...
Pagina 324
... Matilda , against the annual visit which her father should pay there . To confirm this caution , before he left London , Giffard , the steward , took an opportunity to wait upon him , and let him know that his lord had acquainted him ...
... Matilda , against the annual visit which her father should pay there . To confirm this caution , before he left London , Giffard , the steward , took an opportunity to wait upon him , and let him know that his lord had acquainted him ...
Pagina 325
... Matilda , Miss Woodley , and even Sandford , first visiting Lady Elmwood's grave , and bedewing it with their tears . CHAPTER XXXV . Ir was on a dark evening in the month of March that Lady Matilda , accompanied by Sandford and Miss ...
... Matilda , Miss Woodley , and even Sandford , first visiting Lady Elmwood's grave , and bedewing it with their tears . CHAPTER XXXV . Ir was on a dark evening in the month of March that Lady Matilda , accompanied by Sandford and Miss ...
Pagina 326
... Matilda as her friend risen from the grave , in her former youth , health , and exquisite beauty . In peace , in content , though not in happiness , the days and weeks passed away till about the middle of August , when preparations ...
... Matilda as her friend risen from the grave , in her former youth , health , and exquisite beauty . In peace , in content , though not in happiness , the days and weeks passed away till about the middle of August , when preparations ...
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Pagina 30 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Pagina 55 - Father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats." The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
Pagina 56 - He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling...
Pagina 37 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Pagina 55 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Pagina 37 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Pagina 110 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Pagina 55 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, (which I take to be the elder brother,) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Pagina 45 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would be foolish indeed.
Pagina 55 - What could it proceed from? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand.