The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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... father , whose eyes looked suddenly but heavily at his child , and then at my approaching figure . 66 Pray walk in , " said he , with a kind of mechanical civility , but evidently not completely roused from sleep . " I - I - am very ...
... father , whose eyes looked suddenly but heavily at his child , and then at my approaching figure . 66 Pray walk in , " said he , with a kind of mechanical civility , but evidently not completely roused from sleep . " I - I - am very ...
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... father , and then upon me , as each of us spoke , almost led me to think that he appreciated the grave import of our conversation . " Yes , I certainly think it probable - very probable- that you would recover , provided , as I said ...
... father , and then upon me , as each of us spoke , almost led me to think that he appreciated the grave import of our conversation . " Yes , I certainly think it probable - very probable- that you would recover , provided , as I said ...
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... father , who at the same time slipped a guinea in my hand . I took it easily . " Come , sirrah , " said I , addressing the child , 66 will you be my banker ? " shutting his little fingers on the guinea . " Pardon me - excuse me , doctor ...
... father , who at the same time slipped a guinea in my hand . I took it easily . " Come , sirrah , " said I , addressing the child , 66 will you be my banker ? " shutting his little fingers on the guinea . " Pardon me - excuse me , doctor ...
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... father , Major Elliott ; whose addiction to gambling , having for a long time seriously embarrassed his affairs , and nearly broken the heart of his wife , at length led him to commit the fatal act above spoken of . His widow survived ...
... father , Major Elliott ; whose addiction to gambling , having for a long time seriously embarrassed his affairs , and nearly broken the heart of his wife , at length led him to commit the fatal act above spoken of . His widow survived ...
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... father had destined , in his own weak and vain ambition , to become the wearer of a coronet . On this dazzling object were Mr. Hillary's eyes fixed with unwavering earnestness ; he desired and longed to pour the tide of his gold through ...
... father had destined , in his own weak and vain ambition , to become the wearer of a coronet . On this dazzling object were Mr. Hillary's eyes fixed with unwavering earnestness ; he desired and longed to pour the tide of his gold through ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Página 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Página 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Página 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.