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... once for a literary man , and was in the habit of adding to his name , in the title - pages of pamphlets , the mysterious initials O. T. N. which much puzzled his friends , particularly continental scholars , who supposed those letters ...
... once for a literary man , and was in the habit of adding to his name , in the title - pages of pamphlets , the mysterious initials O. T. N. which much puzzled his friends , particularly continental scholars , who supposed those letters ...
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... once condoled with him on the horrible bore of making th index that had occupied three years in the composing and printing , Mr Barker observed that they were the happies years of his life ; for he had thus read and read again the ...
... once condoled with him on the horrible bore of making th index that had occupied three years in the composing and printing , Mr Barker observed that they were the happies years of his life ; for he had thus read and read again the ...
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... once he has been known to relieve the wants of another by a sacrifice of personal comforts that few have the virtue to make ; for when he was after- wards a prisoner in the Fleet for debt , he frequently lent his last shilling to one of ...
... once he has been known to relieve the wants of another by a sacrifice of personal comforts that few have the virtue to make ; for when he was after- wards a prisoner in the Fleet for debt , he frequently lent his last shilling to one of ...
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... once with every one he met , and gained the good will of most by his affability , whilst he astonished them by the variety of his information . When I first entered the room , where he was seated , eating a mutton - chop , a slight ...
... once with every one he met , and gained the good will of most by his affability , whilst he astonished them by the variety of his information . When I first entered the room , where he was seated , eating a mutton - chop , a slight ...
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... once or twice only , when his visits were short and hurried . On the 21st of March following , I was told that a lady desired to see me . It was Mrs Reynolds , whose house Mr B. had been latterly much in the habit of visiting ; she ...
... once or twice only , when his visits were short and hurried . On the 21st of March following , I was told that a lady desired to see me . It was Mrs Reynolds , whose house Mr B. had been latterly much in the habit of visiting ; she ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration afterwards anecdotes Anna's appeared asked Basil Montagu beauty Bishop brother called Captain celebrated Chambers cholera Circassia croak Curran dear death debt Devil died dine Dr Johnson Dr Parr Duke E. H. BARKER edition English EPITAPH EUGENE ARAM eyes father Fleet Fleet Prison French G. W. M. Reynolds gave gentleman Gilliland Godfrey Higgins Greek hand heard heart heaven honour inscription Irishman King KING'S BENCH PRISON lady late learned letter lived London Lord Eldon Lord Erskine Lordship Mary Ann Clarke matter morning never night observed officer once person Plato Plotinus Prince prisoner Proclus received remarkable replied says sent Sermon servant Sheridan shew sieur Vigor Simon Vigor Stewart thee thing thou thought tion told took town translation visited walked wife wish word wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 110 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Página 111 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 153 - Nor riches I nor pow'r pursue, Nor hold forbidden joys in view ; We, therefore, need not part. Where wilt thou dwell^ if not with me, From av'rice and ambition free, And pleasure's fatal wiles? For whom, alas ! dost thou prepare The sweets, that I was wont to share, The banquet of thy smiles...
Página 99 - My stockings there I often knit, my kerchief there I hem ; and there upon the ground I sit — I sit and sing to them. And often after sunset, sir, when it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, and eat my supper there.
Página 195 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Página 100 - And when the ground was white with snow, And I could run and slide, My brother John was forced to go, And he lies by her side". "How many are you, then, "said I, "If they two are in heaven?
Página 99 - Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie Beneath the churchyard tree.
Página 98 - She answered, Seven are we ; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother ; And in the churchyard cottage I Dwell near them with my mother.
Página 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 144 - Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough.