My Old Portfolio; Or, Tales and SketchesSmith, Elder, and Company, 1832 - 310페이지 |
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... sort of twenty- guineas - a - month enjoyment , procured through the medium of a stage - coach . To us it seems clear that no one can be happy in the coun- try , as a christian and a gentleman ought to be , who fixes his head - quarters ...
... sort of twenty- guineas - a - month enjoyment , procured through the medium of a stage - coach . To us it seems clear that no one can be happy in the coun- try , as a christian and a gentleman ought to be , who fixes his head - quarters ...
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... sort of noise is heard above on the Shreck horn . Every body looks up ; but , just as they look up , down comes an ava- lanche or a bit of a glacier ! and in one moment the chatty elderly ladies are no more ; and the worthy baronets ...
... sort of noise is heard above on the Shreck horn . Every body looks up ; but , just as they look up , down comes an ava- lanche or a bit of a glacier ! and in one moment the chatty elderly ladies are no more ; and the worthy baronets ...
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... sort of scale . All the Scottish rivers put together would hardly form a decent tributary to the Mississippi ; and all the Scottish cascades made into one , would but resemble the little dog who barked at the moon , if set down beside ...
... sort of scale . All the Scottish rivers put together would hardly form a decent tributary to the Mississippi ; and all the Scottish cascades made into one , would but resemble the little dog who barked at the moon , if set down beside ...
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... are held , and which is alternate- ly converted into a dancing - school , a theatre , a methodist chapel , a ball - room , an auction - room , an exhibition - room , or any other sort of The Stranger, a Tale founded on Fact.
... are held , and which is alternate- ly converted into a dancing - school , a theatre , a methodist chapel , a ball - room , an auction - room , an exhibition - room , or any other sort of The Stranger, a Tale founded on Fact.
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... sort of comfortable look and tone , that it was a cold raw night . His guest assented with a nod . " You call this village Hodnet , do you not ? " said he enquiringly . " Yes , sir , this is the town of Hodnet ( Mr. Cherryripe did not ...
... sort of comfortable look and tone , that it was a cold raw night . His guest assented with a nod . " You call this village Hodnet , do you not ? " said he enquiringly . " Yes , sir , this is the town of Hodnet ( Mr. Cherryripe did not ...
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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...