Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown, 1899 - 499 strani |
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Stran 8
... young lady , it by no means suits an elderly gentleman to be , namely , - in chancery . " What's to be done ? " was the question , which like a tennis - ball we pitched at each other . " We have it , " said we . " We'll start at once ...
... young lady , it by no means suits an elderly gentleman to be , namely , - in chancery . " What's to be done ? " was the question , which like a tennis - ball we pitched at each other . " We have it , " said we . " We'll start at once ...
Stran 16
... 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 outside ...
... 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 outside ...
Stran 17
... young fellow in a braided frock , that stands gazing at her in the mirror with something very like a smile on his lip . There's no mistaking that pair of dark - eyed fellows with aquiline noses and black ill - shaven beards , Ham- burgh ...
... young fellow in a braided frock , that stands gazing at her in the mirror with something very like a smile on his lip . There's no mistaking that pair of dark - eyed fellows with aquiline noses and black ill - shaven beards , Ham- burgh ...
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... young participated in the sentiment from an opposite rea- son ; theirs was the unconsciousness of danger . But there was a middle term , what Balzac calls " la femme de trente ans ; " and she either looked over the bulwarks 22 ARTHUR O ...
... young participated in the sentiment from an opposite rea- son ; theirs was the unconsciousness of danger . But there was a middle term , what Balzac calls " la femme de trente ans ; " and she either looked over the bulwarks 22 ARTHUR O ...
Stran 29
... young ladies , a performance which , whether from the darkness of the night or the intricacy of the muffling , took a most unmer- ciful time to accomplish . - " We shall never find the hotel at this hour , " said Sir Peter , angrily ...
... young ladies , a performance which , whether from the darkness of the night or the intricacy of the muffling , took a most unmer- ciful time to accomplish . - " We shall never find the hotel at this hour , " said Sir Peter , angrily ...
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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...