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Pagina 4
... tell my story in the off - hand fashion of the present day . It is not fair to lay hold of my courteous reader by the button , and inflict on him the un- necessary twaddle that shall dub me " bore . " Well ; the gallant -th were ...
... tell my story in the off - hand fashion of the present day . It is not fair to lay hold of my courteous reader by the button , and inflict on him the un- necessary twaddle that shall dub me " bore . " Well ; the gallant -th were ...
Pagina 7
... tell you what you are dying to hear - that on the next quarter of an hour the happiness for life of two persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ...
... tell you what you are dying to hear - that on the next quarter of an hour the happiness for life of two persons may depend ? " Mamma " and the world have laid down certain rules of propriety , and Mamma " and the world must be obeyed ...
Pagina 16
... tell our informant , frankly , that , looking round upon the evidences of stagna- tion which present themselves , we utterly disbelieve his statement . Our faith , how- ever , is soon strengthened . Somebody mounts the stairs , and ...
... tell our informant , frankly , that , looking round upon the evidences of stagna- tion which present themselves , we utterly disbelieve his statement . Our faith , how- ever , is soon strengthened . Somebody mounts the stairs , and ...
Pagina 31
... tell . It was known only to the police - there was an ap- prehension of some attempt at a rescue , and ten thousand troops were to be on the ground . It will be either the Place St. Jaques , or the Barrière du Trône - the first What ...
... tell . It was known only to the police - there was an ap- prehension of some attempt at a rescue , and ten thousand troops were to be on the ground . It will be either the Place St. Jaques , or the Barrière du Trône - the first What ...
Pagina 69
... tell where he is , what he is like , what he is doing - nay , even how he is both in body and mind . To this stage belongs the remarkable phe- nomenon of mental travelling by entranced persons ; the more complicated cases of which prove ...
... tell where he is , what he is like , what he is doing - nay , even how he is both in body and mind . To this stage belongs the remarkable phe- nomenon of mental travelling by entranced persons ; the more complicated cases of which prove ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 496 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Pagina 394 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Pagina 3 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Pagina 496 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Pagina 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Pagina 251 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Pagina 248 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pagina 128 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Pagina 231 - The Cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Pagina 250 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.