Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 7
... feel myself turning round and round like a smoke- jack . Once for all , - stop ! recall your announcement , burn your manuscript , and prostrate yourself in abject humility at my feet , and with many sighs , and two pounds of shag ( to ...
... feel myself turning round and round like a smoke- jack . Once for all , - stop ! recall your announcement , burn your manuscript , and prostrate yourself in abject humility at my feet , and with many sighs , and two pounds of shag ( to ...
Stran 24
... feel that the tortures of sea - sick- ness are meant as antagonists to all the terrors of drown- ing and all the horrors of shipwreck . Let him who has felt the agonies of that internal earth- quake which the " pitch and toss " motion ...
... feel that the tortures of sea - sick- ness are meant as antagonists to all the terrors of drown- ing and all the horrors of shipwreck . Let him who has felt the agonies of that internal earth- quake which the " pitch and toss " motion ...
Stran 44
... feeling what a dreadful thing was the grip of a drowning man ; for both his hands were on my neck , and he squeezed me fearfully . Of what hap- pened after , the waiters or the Humane Society may know something . I only can tell that I ...
... feeling what a dreadful thing was the grip of a drowning man ; for both his hands were on my neck , and he squeezed me fearfully . Of what hap- pened after , the waiters or the Humane Society may know something . I only can tell that I ...
Stran 53
... feel , but to me , I must confess , much of the pleasure the Continent affords me , is destroyed by the jargon of the commissionnaires , and the cant of guide - books . Why is not a man permitted to sit down before that great picture ...
... feel , but to me , I must confess , much of the pleasure the Continent affords me , is destroyed by the jargon of the commissionnaires , and the cant of guide - books . Why is not a man permitted to sit down before that great picture ...
Stran 66
... 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 other from the starting - post ; others never do , though they travel a life - long together , so that on ...
... 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 other from the starting - post ; others never do , though they travel a life - long together , so that on ...
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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...