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... hear of your mis- fortune , Captain Lynden , ' said John , in a quiet , respectful tone , as he entered the room , but I hope it's not quite so serious . When will you please to have dinner , sir ? ' Dinner ! Ugh ! -I haven't much ...
... hear of your mis- fortune , Captain Lynden , ' said John , in a quiet , respectful tone , as he entered the room , but I hope it's not quite so serious . When will you please to have dinner , sir ? ' Dinner ! Ugh ! -I haven't much ...
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... hear voices in the drawing - room as the front door is opened ; we like the house and we go to the drawing- room to see the owner ; the voices rise before our approach and die away as we enter the room . Alas ! Mr. Knox has just taken ...
... hear voices in the drawing - room as the front door is opened ; we like the house and we go to the drawing- room to see the owner ; the voices rise before our approach and die away as we enter the room . Alas ! Mr. Knox has just taken ...
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... hear of such sacrilege , perfidy , and gra- tuitous cruelty . It is worth while yachting over to Lundy , if only to gain acquaintance with what we are told is its especial charm - its perfect purity and fresh- ness of colour . In few ...
... hear of such sacrilege , perfidy , and gra- tuitous cruelty . It is worth while yachting over to Lundy , if only to gain acquaintance with what we are told is its especial charm - its perfect purity and fresh- ness of colour . In few ...
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... hear , oh Banting ! reducing the corpu- lent . If indulged in too freely without advice they may affect the head ; but taken under proper guidance , they really seem to do much towards restoring health and spirits . A patient who had ...
... hear , oh Banting ! reducing the corpu- lent . If indulged in too freely without advice they may affect the head ; but taken under proper guidance , they really seem to do much towards restoring health and spirits . A patient who had ...
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... hear her speak , ay , if only to wince at her cynical laugh , and her oft- repeated saying , that ' love was the greatest nonsense she had ever heard of - painting the grandest of the arts . ' I never could comprehend her . By degrees I ...
... hear her speak , ay , if only to wince at her cynical laugh , and her oft- repeated saying , that ' love was the greatest nonsense she had ever heard of - painting the grandest of the arts . ' I never could comprehend her . By degrees I ...
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Página 438 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle...
Página 317 - The bishop, in reply, with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude attack, concluding thus: "Since the noble lord hath discovered in our manners such a similitude, I am well content to be compared to the prophet Balaam ; but, my lords, I am at a loss how to make out the other part of the parallel: I am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but his lordship.
Página 223 - Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him : for the Lord hath created him.
Página 317 - Lords, said, among other things, " that he prophesied last winter this bill would be attempted in the present session, and he iras sorry to find that he had proved a true prophet." My Lord Coninjjsby, who spoke after the bishop, and always spoke in a passion, desired the House to remark, "that one of the Right Reverends...
Página 60 - On which the young men and maids meet To exercise their dancing feet ; Tripping the comely country round, With daffodils and daisies crown'd. Thy wakes, thy quintels here thou hast, Thy May-poles, too, with garlands grac'd ; Thy morris dance, thy Whitsun ale, Thy shearing feast which never fail ; Thy harvest-home, thy wassail bowl, That's toss'd up after fox i...
Página 453 - , who is beauty itself ! her face, bloom, eyes, hair, teeth, and person are all perfect. You may imagine how charming she is, when her only fault, if one must find one, is that her face is rather too round. She has a great deal of wit and vivacity, with perfect modesty.
Página 317 - My Lord Coningsby, who spoke after the Bishop, and always spoke in a passion, desired the House to remark, ' that one of the Right Reverend had set himself forth as a prophet ; but for his part he did not know what prophet to liken him to, unless to that furious prophet Balaam, who was reproved by his own ass.
Página 246 - Eldon's humorous answers to applications for preferment should be remembered his letter to Dr. Fisher of the Charterhouse : on one side of a sheet of paper, " Dear Fisher, I cannot, to-day, give you the preferment for which you ask. — I remain your sincere friend, ELDON. — Turn over-" and on the other side,
Página 246 - XIV. showed him his pictures at Paris, the King pointed out to him a picture of the Crucifixion between two portraits. " That on the right," added his Majesty, " is the Pope, and that on the left is myself. ' " I humbly thank your Majesty...
Página 228 - For breakfast, toast and rich soup, made on a slow fire ; a walk before breakfast, and a good deal after it ; a glass of wine in the forenoon from time to time...