Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... given with the kindliest feelings , and the offering , whether for good or evil , was at least accompanied by the merit of a self - sacrifice of no trifling magnitude . The man was evidently a drunkard - he might be a black- guard — and ...
... given with the kindliest feelings , and the offering , whether for good or evil , was at least accompanied by the merit of a self - sacrifice of no trifling magnitude . The man was evidently a drunkard - he might be a black- guard — and ...
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... given way , and he has dropped " unhonour'd and unsung , " into the common place of repose " where bailiffs cease from troubling , and debtors are at rest . " - 66 Such like blue - devilish reflections have ofttimes forced themselves 12 ...
... given way , and he has dropped " unhonour'd and unsung , " into the common place of repose " where bailiffs cease from troubling , and debtors are at rest . " - 66 Such like blue - devilish reflections have ofttimes forced themselves 12 ...
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... given to its successor , No man attends to his business , unless he be a publican or a pastry cook ; and all sorts of profitable employments are looked on as nui- sances . Merchant meets merchant , and the price of stocks is not ...
... given to its successor , No man attends to his business , unless he be a publican or a pastry cook ; and all sorts of profitable employments are looked on as nui- sances . Merchant meets merchant , and the price of stocks is not ...
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... given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
... given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
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... given back four dollars , and ninety - six cents , the starboard chain was unloosed , and the boat proceeded on her way . The young man first saw that the change was all right , and then rushed precipitately forward , and I verily ...
... given back four dollars , and ninety - six cents , the starboard chain was unloosed , and the boat proceeded on her way . The young man first saw that the change was all right , and then rushed precipitately forward , and I verily ...
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Página 242 - 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 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 190 - 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 235 - 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! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Página 108 - 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 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Página 233 - 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 70 - ... 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 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 141 - 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.