Once Upon a Time, Volumen1John Murray, 1854 |
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... stood till noon was past . He was a short , large - headed , son of Africa , subject , as it would appear , to considerable variations of spirits , alternating between depression and excite- ment , as the gains of the day presented to ...
... stood till noon was past . He was a short , large - headed , son of Africa , subject , as it would appear , to considerable variations of spirits , alternating between depression and excite- ment , as the gains of the day presented to ...
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... stood in the pillory , and lost his first ear in a pillory in the palace at Westminster in full term ; his other in Cheapside , where , while he stood , his volumes were burnt under his nose , which had almost suffocated him . " * The ...
... stood in the pillory , and lost his first ear in a pillory in the palace at Westminster in full term ; his other in Cheapside , where , while he stood , his volumes were burnt under his nose , which had almost suffocated him . " * The ...
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... stood up against the caprices of fashion . On each side the door - way , and gene- rally attached to the posts that carry an arching lamp - rail , are two instruments that look like the old tin horn of the crier of " great news . " They ...
... stood up against the caprices of fashion . On each side the door - way , and gene- rally attached to the posts that carry an arching lamp - rail , are two instruments that look like the old tin horn of the crier of " great news . " They ...
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... stood behind him , but refused to be searched , unless the General would go into another room alone with him . There the man told him that he was born a gentleman , was reduced , and lived by what little bets he could pick up there ...
... stood behind him , but refused to be searched , unless the General would go into another room alone with him . There the man told him that he was born a gentleman , was reduced , and lived by what little bets he could pick up there ...
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... stood to the higher classes , and the lofty tone in which one whose passion was evidently the love of literary fame spoke of those to whom literature was a pro- fession , and not an affair of smirking amateurship . Pope had been dead ...
... stood to the higher classes , and the lofty tone in which one whose passion was evidently the love of literary fame spoke of those to whom literature was a pro- fession , and not an affair of smirking amateurship . Pope had been dead ...
Términos y frases comunes
amongst ancient appear asked became become brought Burney called carried century changed close comes common Court described doubt duty eggs England equally existence eyes face Fanny fashion four Gate give gone half Hall hand happy head heard Hicks honour Horace Walpole hour hundred Johnson King knew labour Lady laws learned letter lived London look Lord March matter Miss morning never night once passed perhaps persons play poor pounds present round says scene seen shilling side society sometimes stood streets talk taste tell things thought thousand till tion told took town turn walk wall whole Windsor wonderful writing young
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Página 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Página 188 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 145 - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better skill'd the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, And, skill'd at whist, devotes the night to play : Then, while such honours bloom around his head,...
Página 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
Página 59 - Friday ; the crowd was so great that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs ; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there.
Página 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
Página 143 - Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy Bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect. Paid by the parish for attendance here, He wears contempt upon his sapient sneer; In haste he seeks the bed where Misery lies, Impatience mark'd in his averted eyes; And, some habitual queries hurried o'er, Without reply, he rushes on the door: His drooping patient, long inured to pain, And long unheeded, knows remonstrance vain ; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of man ; and silent sinks into the grave. But...
Página 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?
Página 59 - I went to hear it — for it is not an apparition, but an audition — we set out from the opera, changed our clothes at Northumberland House, the Duke of York, Lady Northumberland, Lady Mary Coke, Lord Hertford and I, all in one...
Página 13 - Like the sweet ballad, this amusing lay Too long detains the walker on his way ; While he attends, new dangers round him throng ; The busy city asks instructive song.