New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and Entertaining, from the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers, Volumen3,Partes5-6C. and C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... once more , " is that port or claret near you ? Mango says Maria is to have half a glass of port wine every day after dinner , this hot weather , - half a glass - thank you - there -- not more - that will do , dear ; " - here Mr ...
... once more , " is that port or claret near you ? Mango says Maria is to have half a glass of port wine every day after dinner , this hot weather , - half a glass - thank you - there -- not more - that will do , dear ; " - here Mr ...
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... once very important chiefs among their fellow savages , who are a race of beings totally destitute of the common attributes of humanity ; and differing in every thing from the inhabitants of the moon , inasmuch as they carry their heads ...
... once very important chiefs among their fellow savages , who are a race of beings totally destitute of the common attributes of humanity ; and differing in every thing from the inhabitants of the moon , inasmuch as they carry their heads ...
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... once more asked , if they were men of mould that demanded entrance at this time of night ? " Were I near you , you old fool , " said Buck . law , " I would give you sufficient proofs of my bodily condition . " " Open the gate , Caleb ...
... once more asked , if they were men of mould that demanded entrance at this time of night ? " Were I near you , you old fool , " said Buck . law , " I would give you sufficient proofs of my bodily condition . " " Open the gate , Caleb ...
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... once more , our horses , " exclaimed Bucklaw . " True - ay - your horses - yes - I will call the grooms ; " and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rung again , " John - William— Saunders ! The lads are gane out , or sleeping ...
... once more , our horses , " exclaimed Bucklaw . " True - ay - your horses - yes - I will call the grooms ; " and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rung again , " John - William— Saunders ! The lads are gane out , or sleeping ...
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... once so quiet , and again - cheering thought ! -again I trust to be so , when the echo of that visitor's incessant tongue shall have died away . The visitor in question is a very excellent and respectable lady , upright in mind and body ...
... once so quiet , and again - cheering thought ! -again I trust to be so , when the echo of that visitor's incessant tongue shall have died away . The visitor in question is a very excellent and respectable lady , upright in mind and body ...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and ... Richard Alfred Davenport Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 293 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 292 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side, My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood...
Página 372 - From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire.
Página 372 - ... the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections; the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science; but, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood and horror and confusion: nor shall I strive, at the distance of three centuries and a thousand miles, to delineate a scene of which there could be no spectators, and...
Página 373 - I will retire," said the trembling Genoese, "by the same road which God has opened to the Turks;" and at these words he hastily passed through one of the breaches of the inner wall. By this pusillanimous act, he stained the...
Página 177 - Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eye for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam,...
Página 365 - It was at an old lady's, a relation and godmother of mine, where a particular incident occasioned my being left during the vacation of two successive seasons. Her house was formed out of the remains of an old Gothic castle, of which one tower was still almost entire ; it was tenanted by kindly daws and swallows. Beneath, in a modernized part of the building, resided the mistress of the mansion. The house was skirted with a few majestic elms and beeches, and the stumps of several others showed, that...
Página 233 - The island of Lewchew itself is situate in the happiest climate of the globe. — Refreshed by the sea-breezes, which, from its geographical position, blow over it at every period of the year, it is free from the extremes of heat and cold, which oppress many other countries ; whilst from the general configuration of the land, being more adapted to the production of rivers and...
Página 176 - Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament ; and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of every thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple.
Página 371 - The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the Christians, was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defence : the ditch was...