Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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... short , should the volume ever come under the eyes of the respected gentleman himself , con- siderable mystification would exist as to whether he did not say , do , and think exactly as we made him , and much doubt lie on his mind that ...
... short , should the volume ever come under the eyes of the respected gentleman himself , con- siderable mystification would exist as to whether he did not say , do , and think exactly as we made him , and much doubt lie on his mind that ...
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... 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 sooner or ...
... 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 sooner or ...
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... short but at our friend , who appeared to watch this studied denial on her part with the same kind of enjoyment the captain of a frigate would contemplate the destruction his broadsides were making on his enemy's rigging ; and perhaps ...
... short but at our friend , who appeared to watch this studied denial on her part with the same kind of enjoyment the captain of a frigate would contemplate the destruction his broadsides were making on his enemy's rigging ; and perhaps ...
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... short pipe , has a mock air of thought about him . The great fat horses that wag along , trailing behind them some petty , insignificant truck , loaded with a little cask not bigger than a Life Guardsman's helmet , look as though ...
... short pipe , has a mock air of thought about him . The great fat horses that wag along , trailing behind them some petty , insignificant truck , loaded with a little cask not bigger than a Life Guardsman's helmet , look as though ...
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... a visit . The buxom vrows who trudge about with short but voluminous petti- coats , their heads ornamented by those gold or silver cir- clets which no Dutch peasant seems ever to lack , 3 A PERILOUS ADVENTURE . 33 "Nine o'clock. ...
... a visit . The buxom vrows who trudge about with short but voluminous petti- coats , their heads ornamented by those gold or silver cir- clets which no Dutch peasant seems ever to lack , 3 A PERILOUS ADVENTURE . 33 "Nine o'clock. ...
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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...