Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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... Germans call them , are they not as much his , as his , what shall I say ? — his flannel waistcoat or his tobacco - pipe ? --- If I have spent many years and many pounds ( of tobacco ) in my explorings of other lands , is it for you to ...
... Germans call them , are they not as much his , as his , what shall I say ? — his flannel waistcoat or his tobacco - pipe ? --- If I have spent many years and many pounds ( of tobacco ) in my explorings of other lands , is it for you to ...
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... German , -a Frenchman , happily , is too self - sufficient ever to listen , who greedily swallows the farrago of absurdity , which , according to the politics of his informant , represents the nation in a plethora of prosperity or the ...
... German , -a Frenchman , happily , is too self - sufficient ever to listen , who greedily swallows the farrago of absurdity , which , according to the politics of his informant , represents the nation in a plethora of prosperity or the ...
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... German sits on the bal- him . The ass is blind of one eye . cony , and is spitting into the Rhine . " Ten . - A livery servant from Bâle rides by , with a basket . An old peasant in a yellow doublet — " " Ah , what of him ? " " Nothing ...
... German sits on the bal- him . The ass is blind of one eye . cony , and is spitting into the Rhine . " Ten . - A livery servant from Bâle rides by , with a basket . An old peasant in a yellow doublet — " " Ah , what of him ? " " Nothing ...
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... German barons , bankers and blacklegs , money - changers , cheese - mongers , quacks , and consuls , sat an elderly couple , who , as far apart from the rest of the company as circum- stances would admit , were industriously occupied in ...
... German barons , bankers and blacklegs , money - changers , cheese - mongers , quacks , and consuls , sat an elderly couple , who , as far apart from the rest of the company as circum- stances would admit , were industriously occupied in ...
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... German archduke , — with three hussars for an army , and three acres of barren mountain for a territory , whose subjects are not so numerous as the hairs of his mustache , but whose quarterings go back to Noah , and an ark on a " field ...
... German archduke , — with three hussars for an army , and three acres of barren mountain for a territory , whose subjects are not so numerous as the hairs of his mustache , but whose quarterings go back to Noah , and an ark on a " field ...
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Stran 191 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Stran 53 - I will not bore my reader with the tiresome cant of "effect," "expression," "force," "depth," and " relief," but, instead of all this, will tell him a short story about the painting, which, if it has no other merit, has at least that of authenticity. Rubens — who, among his other tastes, was a great florist — was very desirous to enlarge his garden, by adding to it a patch of ground adoining.
Stran 191 - With equal taste and judgement it is provided that the deep recesses of the forest, and the ' oak, whose antique root peeps out upon the brook that brawls along the wood,' should be the scenes whence Jaques inculcated his lessons of philosophy and morality.
Stran 242 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys! Why, soldiers, why? Whose business 'tis to die?
Stran 103 - Northumberland," with troops, was the answer ; and before the words were well out, a banging noise was heard — the ports of the...