Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 6
... appearance of something like a child's effort to draw a series of beetles and cockroaches with a blunt stick . But ... appeared ir company ? Or , worse still , was it an attempt to extort money from me , as I understand you once before ...
... appearance of something like a child's effort to draw a series of beetles and cockroaches with a blunt stick . But ... appeared ir company ? Or , worse still , was it an attempt to extort money from me , as I understand you once before ...
Stran 9
... appearance of light nor any stir announced that the family were about . After some little delay , our summons was answered by a bare - legged handmaiden , who , to our question if Mr. O'Leary stopped there , without further hesitation ...
... appearance of light nor any stir announced that the family were about . After some little delay , our summons was answered by a bare - legged handmaiden , who , to our question if Mr. O'Leary stopped there , without further hesitation ...
Stran 10
... appearance , rather startled at being summoned from his bed , and evidencing in his toilette somewhat more of zeal than dandyism . " Is the house insured , Peter ? " said Mr. O'Leary . " No , sir , " rejoined he , with a searching look ...
... appearance , rather startled at being summoned from his bed , and evidencing in his toilette somewhat more of zeal than dandyism . " Is the house insured , Peter ? " said Mr. O'Leary . " No , sir , " rejoined he , with a searching look ...
Stran 12
... appeared since ' Sir John Carr's Travels ; ' and the style is a happy union of Goldsmith and Jean Paul , - simple yet aphoristic , profound and pleasing , sparkling like the can before me , but pungent and racy in its bitterness . Hand ...
... appeared since ' Sir John Carr's Travels ; ' and the style is a happy union of Goldsmith and Jean Paul , - simple yet aphoristic , profound and pleasing , sparkling like the can before me , but pungent and racy in its bitterness . Hand ...
Stran 22
... appearance excited . Indeed , a less practised observer than himself could not fail to remark the unequivocal evidences the lady portion of the community bore to his success . The old ones looked boldly at him with that fearless ...
... appearance excited . Indeed , a less practised observer than himself could not fail to remark the unequivocal evidences the lady portion of the community bore to his success . The old ones looked boldly at him with that fearless ...
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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...