Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 6
... mean me ; and I should like to know what are a man's own , if his adventures are not ? His on- goings , his begebenheiten , as the Germans call them , are they not as much his , as his , what shall I say ? — his flannel waistcoat or his ...
... mean me ; and I should like to know what are a man's own , if his adventures are not ? His on- goings , his begebenheiten , as the Germans call them , are they not as much his , as his , what shall I say ? — his flannel waistcoat or his ...
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... means suits an elderly gentleman to be , namely , - in chancery . " What's to be done ? " was the question , which like ... mean to exalt him ; and before the evening ends obtain his special permission to deal with him , as before now we ...
... means suits an elderly gentleman to be , namely , - in chancery . " What's to be done ? " was the question , which like ... mean to exalt him ; and before the evening ends obtain his special permission to deal with him , as before now we ...
Stran 17
... mean anything , " stammers out the other , and sneaks off . " Laura - Mariar ! where's Laurar ? " calls out a shrill voice from the aft - cabin . " Here , ma , " replies a pretty girl , who is arranging her ringlets at a glass , much to ...
... mean anything , " stammers out the other , and sneaks off . " Laura - Mariar ! where's Laurar ? " calls out a shrill voice from the aft - cabin . " Here , ma , " replies a pretty girl , who is arranging her ringlets at a glass , much to ...
Stran 50
... mean - looking Spaniards , and here and there some " eternal swaggerer from the States , with his hair en Kentuck , and " a very pretty considerable damned loud smell " of tobacco about him . Then there are the grandes dames ...
... mean - looking Spaniards , and here and there some " eternal swaggerer from the States , with his hair en Kentuck , and " a very pretty considerable damned loud smell " of tobacco about him . Then there are the grandes dames ...
Stran 51
... mean order of capacity . From the question of a disputed frontier to that of a place at dinner- there is but one spring from the course of a river towards the sea - and a procession to table , the practised mind bounds as naturally as ...
... mean order of capacity . From the question of a disputed frontier to that of a place at dinner- there is but one spring from the course of a river towards the sea - and a procession to table , the practised mind bounds as naturally as ...
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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...