London Society, Volumen3;Volumen5James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1864 |
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... passed , and the figures are rapidly leading on to twoscore , a man becomes as unwill- ing - ay , as unwilling as any wo- man - to confess that he is as old as he really is . He would like to be thought younger — he would like to be ...
... passed , and the figures are rapidly leading on to twoscore , a man becomes as unwill- ing - ay , as unwilling as any wo- man - to confess that he is as old as he really is . He would like to be thought younger — he would like to be ...
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... passed the Rubicon of forty - five or fifty , still retaining health and strength , you will find that the fugaces anni trouble them little . Men at this age think less of death than youths of half their years . They seem to look upon ...
... passed the Rubicon of forty - five or fifty , still retaining health and strength , you will find that the fugaces anni trouble them little . Men at this age think less of death than youths of half their years . They seem to look upon ...
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... passing on . There is a bitter but profitable reflection in this . A man of great mark , much esteemed , and held in high regard by the circle in which he moves , sinks into an untimely grave . Just for the moment there is a hush among ...
... passing on . There is a bitter but profitable reflection in this . A man of great mark , much esteemed , and held in high regard by the circle in which he moves , sinks into an untimely grave . Just for the moment there is a hush among ...
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... passing indis- position - not more . ' Then con- temptuously remarks an old soldier , full sixteen years of age , with saucy eyes and a brilliant complexion , Les hommes , ils sont toujours pale ! ' and so the scene proceeds . The rest ...
... passing indis- position - not more . ' Then con- temptuously remarks an old soldier , full sixteen years of age , with saucy eyes and a brilliant complexion , Les hommes , ils sont toujours pale ! ' and so the scene proceeds . The rest ...
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... passed amidst the scenes of summer ; a population turning out on New Year's Day to play at cricket , or to make pleasure excursions on the water ; and an exhibition of fruits and flowers in December . We are the antipodes of home : the ...
... passed amidst the scenes of summer ; a population turning out on New Year's Day to play at cricket , or to make pleasure excursions on the water ; and an exhibition of fruits and flowers in December . We are the antipodes of home : the ...
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Página 332 - I gan me drawn, Where much people I saw for to stand ; One offered me velvet, silk, and lawn, Another he taketh me by the hand, "Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land!
Página 181 - An equal number of maids and bachelors get together ; each writes their true or some feigned name upon separate billets, which they roll up, and draw by way of lots, the maids taking the men's billets, and the men the maids...
Página 537 - If all the miseries and troublesome affairs of this sorrowful voyage should be perfectly and thoroughly written, there should need a painful man with his pen, and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and deaths of the...
Página 358 - These are two Irish girls, of no fortune, who are declared the handsomest women alive. I think their being two so handsome and both such perfect figures is their chief excellence, for singly I have seen much handsomer women than either ; however, they can't walk in the park, or go to Vauxhall, but such mobs follow them that they are generally driven away.
Página 358 - The Gunnings flew into a passion, and asked her what she meant; that they came to see the palace, not to be showed as a sight themselves.
Página 130 - There is a sea-port town called Bristol, opposite to Ireland, into which its inhabitants make frequent voyages on account of trade. Wulfstan cured the people of this town of a most odious and inveterate custom, which they derived from their ancestors, of buying men and women in all parts of England, and exporting them to Ireland for the sake of gain.
Página 535 - Isabella : and there he had reasonable utterance of his English commodities, as also of some part of his Negroes, trusting the Spaniards no further than that by his own strength he was able still to master them.
Página 181 - Valentine that is fallen to him, than to the Valentine to whom he is fallen. Fortune having thus divided the company into so many couples, the Valentines give balls and treats to their mistresses, wear their billets several days upon their bosoms or sleeves, and this little sport often ends in Love.
Página 193 - Here, where the sword united nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day ! " And this is much, and all which will not pass away.
Página 421 - Thence to the Park, my wife and I: and here Sir W. Coventry did first see me and my wife in a coach of our own; and so did also this night the Duke of York, who did eye my wife mightily. But I begin to doubt that my being so much seen in my own coach at this time may be observed to my prejudice; but I must venture it now.