Number Thirty: Being Some Relation of what Happened to ChivvyStewart & Kidd Company, 1920 - 348 páginas |
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Number Thirty: Being Some Relation of What Happened to Chivvy (Classic Reprint) Edward Asher Jonas Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Number Thirty: Being Some Relation of What Happened to Chivvy (Classic Reprint) Edward Asher Jonas Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 54 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead Nature. The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons...
Página 16 - The Spirit of the world, Beholding the absurdity of men — Their vaunts, their feats — let a sardonic smile, For one short moment, wander o'er his lips. That smile was Heine!
Página 54 - The Lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street, the innumerable trades, tradesmen and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses, all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden, the very women of the Town, the Watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles, — life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night, the impossibility of being dull in...
Página 54 - Street ; the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and pavements, the print-shops, the old book-stalls, parsons cheapening books, coffee-houses, steams of soups from kitchens, the pantomimes — London itself a pantomime and a masquerade — all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me, without a power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy...
Página 54 - Street ; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses ; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden ; the very women of the Town ; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles ; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night ; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street ; the crowds, the very dirt...
Página 28 - Three or four sardines, and potato salad and a big piece of smoked salmon, and some of that Norwegian herring, and so on, and keep the olives by you to pick at. It's a beginning." " It's — it's immoral," said Marjorie, " that's what I feel. If one needs a whet to eat, one shouldn't eat. The proper beginning of a dinner is soup — good, hot, rich soup. Thick soup — with things in it, vegetables and meat and...
Página 212 - ve always heard that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach ; but I did n't think it cropped out so young in life.
Página 41 - May the Lord cause His countenance to shine upon you and give you grace. May the Lord lift His face towards you and grant you peace!
Página 192 - Why, he was beginning to wonder, should his own life and the lives of all with whom he came in contact...