Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 11
... playing the critic in this fashion- " " Then , " continued he , " all that confounded folly you deal in , laughing at the priests ! Lord bless you , man ! they have more fun , those fellows , than you , and a score like you . There's ...
... playing the critic in this fashion- " " Then , " continued he , " all that confounded folly you deal in , laughing at the priests ! Lord bless you , man ! they have more fun , those fellows , than you , and a score like you . There's ...
Stran 22
... player . A most admirable specimen of this philosophy was pre- sented by our new passenger , who , as he lounged against the binnacle and took a deliberate survey of his fellow- travellers , formed the very ideal of unbroken ease and un ...
... player . A most admirable specimen of this philosophy was pre- sented by our new passenger , who , as he lounged against the binnacle and took a deliberate survey of his fellow- travellers , formed the very ideal of unbroken ease and un ...
Stran 28
... playing go on in summer , before , in winter within , the cafés ; and every broad flat face you look upon , with its watery eyes and muddy complexion , seems like a colored chart of the country that gave it birth . How all the industry ...
... playing go on in summer , before , in winter within , the cafés ; and every broad flat face you look upon , with its watery eyes and muddy complexion , seems like a colored chart of the country that gave it birth . How all the industry ...
Stran 35
... played with untiring energy , and all the items of soup , fish , bouilli , fowl , pork , and vegetables had not to complain of any inattention to their merits , or any undue preference for their predecessors of an hour before . If the ...
... played with untiring energy , and all the items of soup , fish , bouilli , fowl , pork , and vegetables had not to complain of any inattention to their merits , or any undue preference for their predecessors of an hour before . If the ...
Stran 55
... met could n't understand a word of French . I wandered about for full two hours , and heard the old cathedral clock play a psalm - tune , and the St. Joseph tried its hand on another . A watchman cried STRANGE CHARACTERS . 55.
... met could n't understand a word of French . I wandered about for full two hours , and heard the old cathedral clock play a psalm - tune , and the St. Joseph tried its hand on another . A watchman cried STRANGE CHARACTERS . 55.
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acquaintance admirable amusing Antwerp Arthur O'Leary Aubuisson beside Boitsfort burgomaster called character château colonel companion cried dark delightful Dinant dinner door dressed endeavored English Erfurt Ettenheim eyes face fear feel felt Flemish followed fortune Frankfort French German give Givet Göttingen habits half Halsdt hand happy head heard heart honor horses host Hôtel de France hour kind knew lady laughing Laura leave live look louis-d'ors Meuse mind Monsieur morning mountain Napoleon never night Norvins O'Kelly once party passed passion Père pleasant pleasure replied Rhine road Saint Christopher scarcely scene Scheldt schiedam seemed seen side smile speak spirit spoke stood story strange table d'hôte taste tell there's thing thought tion tone took traveller turned Tyrol Vandyck voice walked whole wild wish word
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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...