Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 20
... seemed to say , " It's quite clear there's no coming up to me ; don't try it , —nascitur non fit . " His very voice implied it . The veriest commonplace fell from him with a look , a smile , a gesture , a something or other that made it ...
... seemed to say , " It's quite clear there's no coming up to me ; don't try it , —nascitur non fit . " His very voice implied it . The veriest commonplace fell from him with a look , a smile , a gesture , a something or other that made it ...
Stran 21
... seemed too short for all the fascinations wealth spread around him , and each day brought the one embarrassment how to enjoy enough , I repeat it , I doubt much if he , when the hour of his abdication arrives ( and that it will arrive ...
... seemed too short for all the fascinations wealth spread around him , and each day brought the one embarrassment how to enjoy enough , I repeat it , I doubt much if he , when the hour of his abdication arrives ( and that it will arrive ...
Stran 34
... seemed to excite his approbation , a significant grunt of approval ratified the wisdom of the speech , and made a Solon of the speaker . His ladle descended into the soup , and emerged therefrom with the ponderous regularity of a crane ...
... seemed to excite his approbation , a significant grunt of approval ratified the wisdom of the speech , and made a Solon of the speaker . His ladle descended into the soup , and emerged therefrom with the ponderous regularity of a crane ...
Stran 37
... seemed to hobnob with him when he lifted . the capacious vessel to his lips ; the walls were decorated with quaint pipes , whose large porcelain bowls bespoke them of home origin , and here and there a sea - fight , with a Dutch three ...
... seemed to hobnob with him when he lifted . the capacious vessel to his lips ; the walls were decorated with quaint pipes , whose large porcelain bowls bespoke them of home origin , and here and there a sea - fight , with a Dutch three ...
Stran 38
... seemed to occupy all his thoughts , and he smoked away without ceasing . " You remember the Austrians , then ? " said I , by way of drawing him on . " They were dogs , " said he , spitting out . " Ah , " said I , " the French were ...
... seemed to occupy all his thoughts , and he smoked away without ceasing . " You remember the Austrians , then ? " said I , by way of drawing him on . " They were dogs , " said he , spitting out . " Ah , " said I , " the French were ...
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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...