Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsLittle, Brown,, 1912 - 499 strani |
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Stran 242 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys! Why, soldiers, why? Whose business 'tis to die?
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 adjoining. It chanced, unfortunately, that this piece of land did not belong to an individual who could be tempted ....
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 103 - Northumberland," with troops, was the answer ; and before the words were well out, a banging noise was heard — the ports of the...
Stran 34 - ... sauce, to any one guest in preference to another. The table d'hote, which began at one, concluded a little before three, during which time our host, when not helping others, was busily occupied in helping himself, and it was truly amazing to witness the steady perseverance with which he waded through every dish, making himself master in all its details of every portion of the dinner, from the greasy soup to that acme of Dutch epicurism, Utrecht cheese. About a quarter before three, the long dinner...
Stran 48 - ... and so they went about complaining to every passenger, and endeavoring, with all their eloquence, to make a national thing of it, and determined to represent the case to the minister the moment they reached Frankfort. And now, as the apropos reminds me, what a devil of a life an English minister has in any part of the Continent frequented by his countrymen. Let John Bull, from his ignorance of the country or its language, involve himself in a scrape with the authorities, let him lose his passport...
Stran 46 - Is it not his guide at table d'hote, teaching him when to eat, and where to abstain ? Does he look upon a building, a statue, a picture, an old cabinet, or a manuscript, with whose eyes does he see it? With John Murray's, to be sure! Let John tell him this town is famous for its mushrooms, why, he'll eat them till he becomes half a fungus himself; let him hear that it is celebrated for its lace manufactory or its...
Stran 57 - Then is the wisdom in the can," — a sentiment which a very brief observation of their faces induced me perfectly to concur in. Over the chimneypiece an inscription was painted in letters of about a foot long, "Hier verkoopt man Bier...
Stran 5 - villany is so impressed, it were impiety not to believe it," so are there certain letters whose very shape and color, fold, seal, and superscription have something gloomy and threatening, something of menace and mischief about them. This was one of these ; the paper was a greenish, sickly white, a kind of dyspeptic foolscap ; the very mill that fabricated it might have had the shaking ague. The seal was of bottle-wax, the impression, a heavy thumb. The address ran,