Charles Lamb

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Harper, 1899 - 182 páginas
 

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Página 142 - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years' War." By JOHN LOTHROF MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Illustrated. 2 vols., in a Box, 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $4 00; Sheep, $5 00 -, Half Calf, $8 50. (.Sold only in
Página 142 - THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange. 3 vols., in a Box. 8vo, Cloth, with Paper Labels, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $6 00; Sheep, $7 60; Half Calf, $12 75. (Sold only in Sets.)
Página 51 - before. To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning— When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?" These charming verses are themselves a
Página 147 - THE MIKADO'S EMPIRE. Book I. History of Japan, from 660 BC to 1872 AD Book II. Personal Experiences, Observations, and Studies in Japan, from 1870 to 1874. With Two Supplementary Chapters: Japan in 1883, 1886, and 1890. By WE GRIFFIS. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00; Half Calf, $6
Página 105 - I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice \Vn; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness and difficulty and denial meant in
Página 94 - from one who professes to like minced veal. There is a physiognomical character in the tastes for food. C holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple-dumplings. I am not certain but he is right." And so he rambles on in almost endless digression and absolute fearlessness as to egotism of
Página 50 - flushed her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call: if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied She did inherit. " Her parents held the Quaker rule Which doth the human
Página 129 - blank,' and that she 'never told her love,' there was a pause, as if the story had ended — and then the image of the 'worm in the bud' came up as a new suggestion—and the heightened image of ' Patience' still followed after that, as by some growing (and not mechanical) process, thought springing up after thought,
Página 144 - CURTIS. Two Volumes. Vol. I., 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $3 00. OUR ITALY. An Exposition of the Climate and Resources of Southern California. By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $2 50. LONDON LETTERS, and Some Others. By GEORGE W. SMALLEY, London Correspondent of the New York Tribune.
Página 100 - mortar knaves at their process of destruction, at the plucking of every panel I should have felt the varlets at my heart. I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store-room, in whose hot window-seat I used to sit and read

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