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Pagina 21
... meets with in a dream , methoughts the hall was alarmed , the doors flew open , and there entered a half a dozen of the most hideous phantoms that I had ever seen ( even in a dream ) before that time . They came in two by two , though ...
... meets with in a dream , methoughts the hall was alarmed , the doors flew open , and there entered a half a dozen of the most hideous phantoms that I had ever seen ( even in a dream ) before that time . They came in two by two , though ...
Pagina 22
... MET . MET . 3. 491 . -Her spirits faint , Her blooming cheeks assume a pallid teint , And scarce her form remains . There was a great change in the hill of money bags , and the heaps of money ; the former shrinking , and falling into so ...
... MET . MET . 3. 491 . -Her spirits faint , Her blooming cheeks assume a pallid teint , And scarce her form remains . There was a great change in the hill of money bags , and the heaps of money ; the former shrinking , and falling into so ...
Pagina 36
... meet once or twice a week , upon the account of such a fantastic resemblance . I know a considerable market - town ... met was some- thing of the largest , and had two entrances , the one by a door of a moderate size , and the other by a ...
... meet once or twice a week , upon the account of such a fantastic resemblance . I know a considerable market - town ... met was some- thing of the largest , and had two entrances , the one by a door of a moderate size , and the other by a ...
Pagina 37
... meet at the sign of the George , on St. George's day , and swear ' Before George , ' is still fresh in every one's memory . There are at present in several parts of this city what they call Street - Clubs , in which the chief ...
... meet at the sign of the George , on St. George's day , and swear ' Before George , ' is still fresh in every one's memory . There are at present in several parts of this city what they call Street - Clubs , in which the chief ...
Pagina 39
... met with upon a wall in a little ale - house : how I came thither , I may inform my reader at a more convenient time . These laws were enacted by a knot of artizans and mechanics , who used to meet every night ; and as there is ...
... met with upon a wall in a little ale - house : how I came thither , I may inform my reader at a more convenient time . These laws were enacted by a knot of artizans and mechanics , who used to meet every night ; and as there is ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pagina 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Pagina 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pagina 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Pagina 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Pagina 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Pagina 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Pagina 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Pagina 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Pagina 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.