Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 16
... passing and repassing a dozen times on her way nowhere , with a look half saucy , half shy ; the landlord's son , an abortion of two feet high , a kind of family chief - remembrancer , that sits on a high stool in a bar , and always ...
... passing and repassing a dozen times on her way nowhere , with a look half saucy , half shy ; the landlord's son , an abortion of two feet high , a kind of family chief - remembrancer , that sits on a high stool in a bar , and always ...
Stran 19
... passed , how vexatious it is to hear for the thousandth time the dissertations on English habits , customs , and constitu- tion , delivered by some ill - informed , under - bred fellow or other to some eager German , -a Frenchman ...
... passed , how vexatious it is to hear for the thousandth time the dissertations on English habits , customs , and constitu- tion , delivered by some ill - informed , under - bred fellow or other to some eager German , -a Frenchman ...
Stran 20
... passing to and from Crockford's , at all hours of the day and night . - The expression of his features was something so ... passed without bestowing any portion of attention ; while to the lady part of the company his look was one of ...
... passing to and from Crockford's , at all hours of the day and night . - The expression of his features was something so ... passed without bestowing any portion of attention ; while to the lady part of the company his look was one of ...
Stran 21
... passed over ; and a hundred similar instances are quoted for our admiration of men who could throw themselves at once from all the whirlwind excitement of great events , and seek in the humblest and least obtrusive position an ...
... passed over ; and a hundred similar instances are quoted for our admiration of men who could throw themselves at once from all the whirlwind excitement of great events , and seek in the humblest and least obtrusive position an ...
Stran 23
... passed , removing a seat , kicking any small fragment of rope , etc .; but the motion of the packet warned me that note - taking was at an end , and the best thing I could do would be to " compose " myself . " What's the number , sir ...
... passed , removing a seat , kicking any small fragment of rope , etc .; but the motion of the packet warned me that note - taking was at an end , and the best thing I could do would be to " compose " myself . " What's the number , sir ...
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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...