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... manner . One individual alone attracted my atten- tion . He was a middle - aged man , about the mid- dle height , and neither very corpulent nor other- wise The Man of the Fly-Market Ferry, The Man of the Fly-Market Ferry,
... manner . One individual alone attracted my atten- tion . He was a middle - aged man , about the mid- dle height , and neither very corpulent nor other- wise The Man of the Fly-Market Ferry, The Man of the Fly-Market Ferry,
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... pecuniary demands , I entered the gate , and took my station by the toll - gatherer , with whose appearance and manners I was very VOL . II . 5 much struck in passing , particularly his slow and solemn FLY - MARKET FERRY . 41.
... pecuniary demands , I entered the gate , and took my station by the toll - gatherer , with whose appearance and manners I was very VOL . II . 5 much struck in passing , particularly his slow and solemn FLY - MARKET FERRY . 41.
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... manner of return- ing the change . He was a man apparently about forty - five ; his person was round , fat , oily , and some- what loose and swampy ; the original hue of his face was gone , and it was now a combination of many colors ...
... manner of return- ing the change . He was a man apparently about forty - five ; his person was round , fat , oily , and some- what loose and swampy ; the original hue of his face was gone , and it was now a combination of many colors ...
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... of his property , but this sprout of original sin , in the most solemn manner , and with every appearance of truth , sturdily denied all knowledge of the transac- tion . " This was the unkindest cut of all 46 THE MAN OF THE.
... of his property , but this sprout of original sin , in the most solemn manner , and with every appearance of truth , sturdily denied all knowledge of the transac- tion . " This was the unkindest cut of all 46 THE MAN OF THE.
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... manner of his death was simply thus . After the boat had stopped running on the preceding evening , he wended his way , as was his wont , to a neighboring tavern , where he proceeded to " pour huge draughts of aqua - vitæ down , " in a ...
... manner of his death was simply thus . After the boat had stopped running on the preceding evening , he wended his way , as was his wont , to a neighboring tavern , where he proceeded to " pour huge draughts of aqua - vitæ down , " in a ...
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Página 223 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 25 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Página 178 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Página 106 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 230 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 231 - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
Página 221 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 17 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 68 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Página 129 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.