Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands Charles Lever. A New Way to reckon without one's Host . ARTHUR O'LEARY . Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands BY.
His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands Charles Lever. A New Way to reckon without one's Host . ARTHUR O'LEARY . Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands BY.
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... O'Leary . " It is more than probable that the garbled statement and incorrect expression of which we ourselves were guilty re- specting our friend had piqued him into this declaration , which , on mature consideration , he thought fit ...
... O'Leary . " It is more than probable that the garbled statement and incorrect expression of which we ourselves were guilty re- specting our friend had piqued him into this declaration , which , on mature consideration , he thought fit ...
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... O'Leary had died of the whale feast , or been eaten himself by his godson , no one could conjecture ; and his name had probably been lost amid the rust of ages , if certain booksellers in remote districts had not chanced upon the ...
... O'Leary had died of the whale feast , or been eaten himself by his godson , no one could conjecture ; and his name had probably been lost amid the rust of ages , if certain booksellers in remote districts had not chanced upon the ...
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... O'Leary " might not be an acceptable dish , because there was a bone of " Harry Lorrequer " in the bottom . With all these pros and cons , our vainglorious boast to write the work in question stared us suddenly in the face ; and ...
... O'Leary " might not be an acceptable dish , because there was a bone of " Harry Lorrequer " in the bottom . With all these pros and cons , our vainglorious boast to write the work in question stared us suddenly in the face ; and ...
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... O'Leary , " scrawled in the corner . What ! had he really then escaped the perils of blubber and black men ? Was he alive ? and had he come back to catch us in delicto , -in the very fact of editing him , of raising our exhausted ...
... O'Leary , " scrawled in the corner . What ! had he really then escaped the perils of blubber and black men ? Was he alive ? and had he come back to catch us in delicto , -in the very fact of editing him , of raising our exhausted ...
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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...