The Novels of Charles Lever, Količina 7Downey, 1897 |
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... pleasantly as he looked after me , while I threw myself on a sofa , and cursed the sea . CHAPTER II THE PASSPORT - A PERILOUS ADVENTURE - MINE HOST OF THE ' BOAR'S HEAD ' IF the noise and bustle which attend a wedding , like trumpets in ...
... pleasantly as he looked after me , while I threw myself on a sofa , and cursed the sea . CHAPTER II THE PASSPORT - A PERILOUS ADVENTURE - MINE HOST OF THE ' BOAR'S HEAD ' IF the noise and bustle which attend a wedding , like trumpets in ...
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... pleasant instance a few years back on the Rhine . On the deck of the steamer , amid that strange com- mingled mass of Cockneys and Dutchmen , Flemish boors , German barons , bankers and blacklegs , money - changers , cheesemongers ...
... pleasant instance a few years back on the Rhine . On the deck of the steamer , amid that strange com- mingled mass of Cockneys and Dutchmen , Flemish boors , German barons , bankers and blacklegs , money - changers , cheesemongers ...
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... pleasant and harmless pursuits , so popular in London , of breaking lamps , wrenching off knockers , and thrashing the police , when practised abroad require ex- planation at the hands of the minister , he hesitates not to account for ...
... pleasant and harmless pursuits , so popular in London , of breaking lamps , wrenching off knockers , and thrashing the police , when practised abroad require ex- planation at the hands of the minister , he hesitates not to account for ...
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... pleasant delusion that you are to dine out four days out of the seven . Alas and alack ! the ambassador doesn't keep open house for his rapparee countrymen ; his hôtel is no shelter for females destitute of any correct idea as to where ...
... pleasant delusion that you are to dine out four days out of the seven . Alas and alack ! the ambassador doesn't keep open house for his rapparee countrymen ; his hôtel is no shelter for females destitute of any correct idea as to where ...
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... pleasant and happy evening in all form . ' Worse countries than Holland , Mr. O'Leary , ' said my companion , as he sipped his Burgundy , and looked with ecstasy at the rich colour of the wine through the candle . ' When seen thus ...
... pleasant and happy evening in all form . ' Worse countries than Holland , Mr. O'Leary , ' said my companion , as he sipped his Burgundy , and looked with ecstasy at the rich colour of the wine through the candle . ' When seen thus ...
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Stran 187 - 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 42 - 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 187 - 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 241 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys! Why, soldiers, why? Whose business 'tis to die?
Stran 22 - ... 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...