Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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... I call something . Now I'll go over to the ' Row . " " " Stop a bit . Here seems something strange about the King of Holland . " " You must n't read them , though . No , no . That'll - never do , no , Hal ; no plagiarism 12 INTRODUCTION .
... I call something . Now I'll go over to the ' Row . " " " Stop a bit . Here seems something strange about the King of Holland . " " You must n't read them , though . No , no . That'll - never do , no , Hal ; no plagiarism 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... strange change has come over my feelings . Harry Lorrequer , I'll make your fortune , or rather your son's , for you are a wasteful creature , and will spend the proceeds as fast as you get them ; but the ever - lastingly- called - for ...
... strange change has come over my feelings . Harry Lorrequer , I'll make your fortune , or rather your son's , for you are a wasteful creature , and will spend the proceeds as fast as you get them ; but the ever - lastingly- called - for ...
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... strange young gentlemen , with many - colored waistcoats , are going to Greenwich , and one as far as Margate ; a widow and daughters , rather prettyish girls , for Herne Bay ; a thin , bilious - looking man of about fifty , with four ...
... strange young gentlemen , with many - colored waistcoats , are going to Greenwich , and one as far as Margate ; a widow and daughters , rather prettyish girls , for Herne Bay ; a thin , bilious - looking man of about fifty , with four ...
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... strange people must he see ! how much of narrative would even the narrow limits of a hat - box pre- sent to him ; and how naturally would a story spring from the rosy - cheeked old gentleman , paying his duty upon a pâté de foie gras to ...
... strange people must he see ! how much of narrative would even the narrow limits of a hat - box pre- sent to him ; and how naturally would a story spring from the rosy - cheeked old gentleman , paying his duty upon a pâté de foie gras to ...
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... " canastre , " made me happy as a king . The Holbeiner Kammer owes its name and any repute that it enjoys to a strange , quaint portrait of that master seated at a fire , with a fair - headed , A PERILOUS ADVENTURE . 29.
... " canastre , " made me happy as a king . The Holbeiner Kammer owes its name and any repute that it enjoys to a strange , quaint portrait of that master seated at a fire , with a fair - headed , A PERILOUS ADVENTURE . 29.
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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...