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Pagina 6
... speak to casually , but that is all ; my landlady , if you lik ○ to ask her , can tell you about my habits while I have been in her house . " The address was somewhere in Bloomsbury , and the woman's name , though familiar , quite ...
... speak to casually , but that is all ; my landlady , if you lik ○ to ask her , can tell you about my habits while I have been in her house . " The address was somewhere in Bloomsbury , and the woman's name , though familiar , quite ...
Pagina 17
... speak , but owing to her imperfect articulation , I utterly failed to comprehend what she was saying ; a piece of stupidity on my part that seemed to greatly irritate the old lady , who shrieked at me , and shook her wrinkled and bony ...
... speak , but owing to her imperfect articulation , I utterly failed to comprehend what she was saying ; a piece of stupidity on my part that seemed to greatly irritate the old lady , who shrieked at me , and shook her wrinkled and bony ...
Pagina 25
... speak , our bow to the public , and intimated that the series had closed . Since that time , however , we have been given to understand from an authori- tative quarter that a continuance of the sketches would be far from unwelcome to ...
... speak , our bow to the public , and intimated that the series had closed . Since that time , however , we have been given to understand from an authori- tative quarter that a continuance of the sketches would be far from unwelcome to ...
Pagina 27
... speak forth manly words of truth and soberness , would perhaps be missed as much as any figure in it . XXVII . SIR WILLIAM EDMONETONE . " THE Admiral , " as he is usually termed , is decidedly the oddity , par excellence , of the House ...
... speak forth manly words of truth and soberness , would perhaps be missed as much as any figure in it . XXVII . SIR WILLIAM EDMONETONE . " THE Admiral , " as he is usually termed , is decidedly the oddity , par excellence , of the House ...
Pagina 37
... speaking a word , close up to the infant . The old woman held up her fingers . " You must not kiss your little sister yet , deary , for fear you should wake her , " said the woman , with an important air peculiar to her office . Honoria ...
... speaking a word , close up to the infant . The old woman held up her fingers . " You must not kiss your little sister yet , deary , for fear you should wake her , " said the woman , with an important air peculiar to her office . Honoria ...
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Pagina 568 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
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Pagina 25 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Pagina 605 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Pagina 646 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
Pagina 218 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Pagina 331 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me ! I TRAVELLED among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea ; Nor.
Pagina 705 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Pagina 643 - That keep me from myself, and still delay Life's instant business to a future day ; That task which, as we follow or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise ; Which done, the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done, the richest must be poor.
Pagina 685 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.