New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volumen3C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... sometimes frequenting the lobbies at half - price . A mere Londoner , in fact , from the opportunities he has of knowing something of a number of objects ( and those striking ones ) fan- cies himself a sort of privileged person ...
... sometimes frequenting the lobbies at half - price . A mere Londoner , in fact , from the opportunities he has of knowing something of a number of objects ( and those striking ones ) fan- cies himself a sort of privileged person ...
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... sometimes scold ; so she never plays at cards : and upon the strength of this abstinence had very nearly passed for serious , till it was discovered that she could not abide a long sermon . She always looks out for the shortest preacher ...
... sometimes scold ; so she never plays at cards : and upon the strength of this abstinence had very nearly passed for serious , till it was discovered that she could not abide a long sermon . She always looks out for the shortest preacher ...
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... sometimes lolling over the glass cases of minerals , sometimes study- ing the hieroglyphics on an Egyptian mummy , and sometimes trying , with nearly equal success , to comprehend the allegorical paintings on the lofty ceilings . Whilst ...
... sometimes lolling over the glass cases of minerals , sometimes study- ing the hieroglyphics on an Egyptian mummy , and sometimes trying , with nearly equal success , to comprehend the allegorical paintings on the lofty ceilings . Whilst ...
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... sometimes denied to her nearest relations , when she is en- gaged in teaching them a new stitch . By this continual exercise of their diligence , she has obtained a very considerable number of laborious performances . We have twice as ...
... sometimes denied to her nearest relations , when she is en- gaged in teaching them a new stitch . By this continual exercise of their diligence , she has obtained a very considerable number of laborious performances . We have twice as ...
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... sometimes visiting one branch , and sometimes another quite remote ; as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connexions and small fortunes in England . He had a chirping buoyant disposition , always enjoy- ing the present ...
... sometimes visiting one branch , and sometimes another quite remote ; as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connexions and small fortunes in England . He had a chirping buoyant disposition , always enjoy- ing the present ...
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Página 288 - 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 172 - It is true he was a man shut up within himself, like an oyster, and rarely spoke except in monosyllables; but then it was allowed he seldom said a foolish thing.
Página 368 - 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 368 - ... 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 235 - Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave ; And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 361 - 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 174 - 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 15 - ... and stables, partly ruinous, and closed on the landward front by a low embattled wall, while the remaining side of the quadrangle was occupied by the tower itself, which, tall and narrow, and built of a greyish stone, stood glimmering in the moonlight, like the sheeted spectre of some huge giant.
Página 367 - 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...
Página 376 - Asia. Entranced by the magnificent spectacle, I felt as if all the faculties of my soul were insufficient fully to embrace its glories : I hardly retained power to breathe ; and almost apprehended that in doing so I might dispel the gorgeous vision, and find its whole vast fabric only a delusive dream ! CHAPTER IV.