Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 34
... course of his forty years ' sovereignty , was he known to distribute an undue quantity of fat , or an unseemly proportion of beet - root sauce , to any one guest in prefer- ence to another . The table d'hôte , which began at one ...
... course of his forty years ' sovereignty , was he known to distribute an undue quantity of fat , or an unseemly proportion of beet - root sauce , to any one guest in prefer- ence to another . The table d'hôte , which began at one ...
Stran 51
... course of a river towards the sea - and a procession to table , the practised mind bounds as naturally as though it were a hop and a step . A case in point occurred some short time since at Frankfort . The etiquette in this city gives ...
... course of a river towards the sea - and a procession to table , the practised mind bounds as naturally as though it were a hop and a step . A case in point occurred some short time since at Frankfort . The etiquette in this city gives ...
Stran 60
... course , and they are well paid for taking no notice of it . " " And you ? " " Me ! Well , I do a little that way too , though it's only a branch of my business . I'm only Dirk Hatteraick when I come down to the coast . Then you know a ...
... course , and they are well paid for taking no notice of it . " " And you ? " " Me ! Well , I do a little that way too , though it's only a branch of my business . I'm only Dirk Hatteraick when I come down to the coast . Then you know a ...
Stran 64
... about champagne ? When I was there , they never served it during the first course . Now , cham- pagne should come immediately after your soup : your glass of sherry or madeira is a holocaust offered up to 64 ARTHUR O'LEARY .
... about champagne ? When I was there , they never served it during the first course . Now , cham- pagne should come immediately after your soup : your glass of sherry or madeira is a holocaust offered up to 64 ARTHUR O'LEARY .
Stran 66
... course , " said I , " I have no claim as a stranger - " Oh , as to that , " interrupted he , " somehow I feel as though we were longer acquainted . I've seen much of the world , and know by this time that some men begin to know each ...
... course , " said I , " I have no claim as a stranger - " Oh , as to that , " interrupted he , " somehow I feel as though we were longer acquainted . I've seen much of the world , and know by this time that some men begin to know each ...
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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...