My Old Portfolio; Or, Tales and SketchesSmith, Elder, and Company, 1832 - 310페이지 |
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... believe some amusement may be ex- tracted from this volume , else I would not have published it . The contents are of a light and fanciful nature , and have no higher aim than to lend their aid in whil- ing away a tranquil hour . A good ...
... believe some amusement may be ex- tracted from this volume , else I would not have published it . The contents are of a light and fanciful nature , and have no higher aim than to lend their aid in whil- ing away a tranquil hour . A good ...
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... the town of Hodnet ( Mr. Cherryripe did not like the term village ) ; and a prettier little place is not to be found in England . " " So I have heard ; and as you are not upon any of the great roads , I believe you have 24 THE STRANGER .
... the town of Hodnet ( Mr. Cherryripe did not like the term village ) ; and a prettier little place is not to be found in England . " " So I have heard ; and as you are not upon any of the great roads , I believe you have 24 THE STRANGER .
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Henry Glassford Bell. any of the great roads , I believe you have the re- putation of being a primitive and unsophisticated race . " “ Privitive and sofisticated , did you say , sir ? Why as to that , I cannot exactly speak ; but if ...
Henry Glassford Bell. any of the great roads , I believe you have the re- putation of being a primitive and unsophisticated race . " “ Privitive and sofisticated , did you say , sir ? Why as to that , I cannot exactly speak ; but if ...
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... believe that there was hope . And so there was ; for the mail once more stopped at the Blue Boar ; a gentleman wrapped in a tra- velling cloak once more came out of it ; and Mr. Gilbert Cherryripe once more poked the fire for him in his ...
... believe that there was hope . And so there was ; for the mail once more stopped at the Blue Boar ; a gentleman wrapped in a tra- velling cloak once more came out of it ; and Mr. Gilbert Cherryripe once more poked the fire for him in his ...
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... believe it a dead body endowed with the power of motion . On it went through village and town , towards the great wilds and forests of Germany . Weeks , months , years , elapsed , but at intervals the horrid shape was seen , and still ...
... believe it a dead body endowed with the power of motion . On it went through village and town , towards the great wilds and forests of Germany . Weeks , months , years , elapsed , but at intervals the horrid shape was seen , and still ...
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155 페이지 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep Spread far around and inaccessibly Its circles?
201 페이지 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
137 페이지 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
5 페이지 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
87 페이지 - Turningvort was a man of speculative as well as practical science, and there was a favourite discovery which he had long been endeavouring to make, and in accomplishing which he imagined he had at last succeeded that very morning. Like all other manufacturers of terrestrial legs, he had ever found the chief difficulty in his progress towards perfection to consist in its being...
122 페이지 - Fitzclarence."— Julia's cheeks grew first as white as her brow, and then as red as her lips. As soon as breakfast was over, she retired to her own apartment, whither we must, for once, take the liberty of following her. She sat herself down before her mirror, and deliberately took from her hair a very tasteful little knot of fictitious flowers, which she had fastened in it when she rose. One naturally expected that she was about to replace this ornament with something more splendid — a few jewels,...
91 페이지 - I may walk. Don't stand gaping there, but come out and relieve me, or I shall be out of sight, and you will not be able to overtake me." The mechanician grew very pale ; he was evidently not prepared for this new difficulty. He lost not a moment, however, in following the merchant to do what he could towards extricating him from so awkward a predicament. The merchant, or rather the merchant's leg, was walking very quick, and Turningvort, being an elderly man, found it no easy matter to make up to...