Temple Bar, Volume 79George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1887 |
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... followed the butler to the drawing - room . I am not a person who easily becomes confused , but I must own I did get confused with the large party into the midst of which we were now ushered . I soon made out Sir George Danvers , a ...
... followed the butler to the drawing - room . I am not a person who easily becomes confused , but I must own I did get confused with the large party into the midst of which we were now ushered . I soon made out Sir George Danvers , a ...
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... followed . One day he said abruptly to the young lady , " Do you know , people say we are going to be married . " Annoyed at being gossiped about , and above all at being told of the gossip by him , she was about to answer sharply ...
... followed . One day he said abruptly to the young lady , " Do you know , people say we are going to be married . " Annoyed at being gossiped about , and above all at being told of the gossip by him , she was about to answer sharply ...
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... to each other , with fearful gestures of incantation , followed by " God bless poor missus soon well now . " The wrath of a cockney housemaid , spectatress of the scene , became sublime . " There , 38 LADY DUFF GORDON .
... to each other , with fearful gestures of incantation , followed by " God bless poor missus soon well now . " The wrath of a cockney housemaid , spectatress of the scene , became sublime . " There , 38 LADY DUFF GORDON .
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... followed me for some reason ; and I determined not to give way to any foolish terror concerning it , but to calmly await the course of events , that would in time , I felt convinced , explain everything . I stayed a fortnight longer in ...
... followed me for some reason ; and I determined not to give way to any foolish terror concerning it , but to calmly await the course of events , that would in time , I felt convinced , explain everything . I stayed a fortnight longer in ...
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... followed her out of the barren , forlorn - looking room . Scarcely were we well outside the door when it shut to with a sharp click . I tried it - it was fast locked ! This was too much for Mrs. Fairleigh . She rushed downstairs in a ...
... followed her out of the barren , forlorn - looking room . Scarcely were we well outside the door when it shut to with a sharp click . I tried it - it was fast locked ! This was too much for Mrs. Fairleigh . She rushed downstairs in a ...
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Página 267 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 99 - He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority.
Página 96 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm!
Página 523 - Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Página 105 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
Página 198 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 374 - THE PICKWICK PAPERS. — On the 31st of March will be published, to be continued monthly, price One Shilling, the first number of the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, containing a faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures, and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by Boz.
Página 286 - and the ' Aids to Reflection.' The room was becoming excessively hot. The first specimen of the new compound was handed to Hook, who paused to quaff it, and then, exclaiming that he was stifled, flung his glass through the window. Coleridge rose with the aspect of a benignant patriarch, and demolished another pane — the example was followed generally — the window was a sieve in an instant — the kind host was farthest from the mark, and his goblet made havoc of the chandelier.
Página 269 - ... cheerful thoughts possessed his mind, and those still increased by constant company at his table, of such persons as brought thither additions both of learning and pleasure : but some part of most days was usually spent in philosophical conclusions. Nor did he forget his innate pleasure of angling, which he would usually call, " his idle time not idly spent ;" saying often, he would rather live five May months than forty Decembers.
Página 374 - I should like to take my own way, with a freer range of English scenes and people, and was afraid I should ultimately do so in any case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at starting. My views being deferred to, I thought of Mr Pickwick, and wrote the first number...