The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 45
Página 9
... stood looking over the blinds into the deserted and almost deluged street- " there are one or two poor souls that would certainly have been here this morning , accord- ing to appointment , but for this unfriendly weather . Their cases ...
... stood looking over the blinds into the deserted and almost deluged street- " there are one or two poor souls that would certainly have been here this morning , accord- ing to appointment , but for this unfriendly weather . Their cases ...
Página 15
... stood beside her suffering sister , that I found it necessary gently to remove her from the room . What a melancholy picture of grief was before me in Mrs. Elliott , if that were her name . Her expressive features were flushed , and ...
... stood beside her suffering sister , that I found it necessary gently to remove her from the room . What a melancholy picture of grief was before me in Mrs. Elliott , if that were her name . Her expressive features were flushed , and ...
Página 32
... stood at her father's sideboard at dinner . His · mind was kept constantly occupied by his impetuous employer , and his hundred questions about everything that had or had not happened every day in the city Thus for nearly three months ...
... stood at her father's sideboard at dinner . His · mind was kept constantly occupied by his impetuous employer , and his hundred questions about everything that had or had not happened every day in the city Thus for nearly three months ...
Página 33
... stood wine and fruit . Poor Elliott looked , as well he might , exhausted with his long and rapid walk through the fervid sunshine . “ Well , sir — what now ? " said her father , quickly and peremptorily , at the same time eagerly ...
... stood wine and fruit . Poor Elliott looked , as well he might , exhausted with his long and rapid walk through the fervid sunshine . “ Well , sir — what now ? " said her father , quickly and peremptorily , at the same time eagerly ...
Página 48
... stood also her desk . She perceived that all was discovered - and with a smothered scream fell senseless upon the floor . There , as far as her father was concerned , she might have continued ; but his companion sprang to the bell ...
... stood also her desk . She perceived that all was discovered - and with a smothered scream fell senseless upon the floor . There , as far as her father was concerned , she might have continued ; but his companion sprang to the bell ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.