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... sides yet shake heartily as ever at the Grotesques and Arabesques and droll Picturesques that my Good Genius ( a Pantagruelian Familiar ) charitably conjures up to divert me from more sombre realities . It was the whim of a late ...
... sides yet shake heartily as ever at the Grotesques and Arabesques and droll Picturesques that my Good Genius ( a Pantagruelian Familiar ) charitably conjures up to divert me from more sombre realities . It was the whim of a late ...
Pagina 3
... side of everything . The raven croaked , but I persuaded myself that it was the nightingale : there was the smell of the mould , but I remembered that it nourished the violets . However my body might cry craven , my mind luckily had no ...
... side of everything . The raven croaked , but I persuaded myself that it was the nightingale : there was the smell of the mould , but I remembered that it nourished the violets . However my body might cry craven , my mind luckily had no ...
Pagina 14
... sides cutting down trees . As I knew it was profitable to fell timber , I directed them to begin with a very ugly straggling old hollow tree next the premises , but it fell the wrong way , and knocked down the cow - house . Luckily the ...
... sides cutting down trees . As I knew it was profitable to fell timber , I directed them to begin with a very ugly straggling old hollow tree next the premises , but it fell the wrong way , and knocked down the cow - house . Luckily the ...
Pagina 15
... side taken in time saves nine spasms . Dorothy's tincture of the rhubarb stalks in the garden , doesn't answer , and it's a pity now they were not saved for pies . No. VI . - From Mrs. PUGSLEY to Mrs. ROGERS . MADAM , Although warmth ...
... side taken in time saves nine spasms . Dorothy's tincture of the rhubarb stalks in the garden , doesn't answer , and it's a pity now they were not saved for pies . No. VI . - From Mrs. PUGSLEY to Mrs. ROGERS . MADAM , Although warmth ...
Pagina 27
... sides and backs all scotched and black with dirt ; But as nobody was in ' em - none but nobody was hurt ! Well , there I am , a - scrambling up the things , all in a lump , When , mercy on us ! such a groan as makes my heart to jump ...
... sides and backs all scotched and black with dirt ; But as nobody was in ' em - none but nobody was hurt ! Well , there I am , a - scrambling up the things , all in a lump , When , mercy on us ! such a groan as makes my heart to jump ...
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Pagina 44 - What ! must you go ? next time I hope You'll give me longer measure ; Nay — I shall see you down the stairs — (With most uncommon pleasure...
Pagina 144 - Jael had those full dark inscrutable eyes. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces — or rather masks— that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encounters in the streets and highways. I love what Fuller beautifully calls — these
Pagina 41 - Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls Some feline foe, and screams in shrill ill-will. Now Bulls of Bashan, of a prize size, rise In childish dreams, and with a roar gore poor Georgy, or Charley, or Billy, willy-nilly ; — But Nursemaid in a nightmare rest...
Pagina 240 - ... application of the following words of Sir Walter Scott, much better than the career of their illustrious author. " There is no man known at all in literature, who may not have more to tell of his private life than I have. I have surmounted no difficulties either of birth or education, nor have I been favoured by any particular advantages, and my life has been as void of incidents of importance as that of the weary knife-grinder—' Story! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir.'"..
Pagina 149 - ... been whites, and are still white, or nearly white, once a year, like the hawthorns in May, they are protected and even pampered by laws, the framers of which have assuredly considered their own crows as the fairest. Let any one turn to the Statute Anno Quarto et Quinto Gulielmi IV. Regis, cap. 35, intituled " An Act for the Better Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and their Apprentices," and he will find that the Climbing Boy, compared with the African, is almost a spoiled child.
Pagina 47 - The horror of Emilia, on discovering that the Moor had murdered her mistress, was scarcely greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather ! She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels. She was rooted to the spot ! and her hair, if it had been her own, would have stood upright upon her head ! There was no doubt in the case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into...
Pagina 79 - Sally, sharks do things by halves, Yet most completely do ! A bite in one place seems enough, But I've been bit in two, " You know I once was all your own But now a shark must share ! But let that pass — for now to you I'm neither here nor there.