Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... kind of persons , whom we have had the misfortune to become ac- quainted with , in reality know no more of the ster- ling English comedies ( except a few of the most popular ) than they do of Homer in the orignal ; and as for Shakspeare ...
... kind of persons , whom we have had the misfortune to become ac- quainted with , in reality know no more of the ster- ling English comedies ( except a few of the most popular ) than they do of Homer in the orignal ; and as for Shakspeare ...
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... kind ; and the man who on one night laughs heartily at the extrava- gance of Hilson , or the extravagant extravagance of Barnes , in some of their " broad - grin " parts , is more likely on the next to relish the passion and pathos ...
... kind ; and the man who on one night laughs heartily at the extrava- gance of Hilson , or the extravagant extravagance of Barnes , in some of their " broad - grin " parts , is more likely on the next to relish the passion and pathos ...
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... kind , for drawing from his side - poc- ket a large greasy - looking roll of bills , he slowly and deliberately proceeded to select the most suspi- cious and unbrokerable banks . Just as he had accomplished this to his satisfaction ...
... kind , for drawing from his side - poc- ket a large greasy - looking roll of bills , he slowly and deliberately proceeded to select the most suspi- cious and unbrokerable banks . Just as he had accomplished this to his satisfaction ...
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... kind- hearted , sensible enough sort of man . When a census of the population of the metropolis was taken , he counted one ; but excepting on those oc- casions , never attempted to cut a figure in the world . If one asked his opinion ...
... kind- hearted , sensible enough sort of man . When a census of the population of the metropolis was taken , he counted one ; but excepting on those oc- casions , never attempted to cut a figure in the world . If one asked his opinion ...
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... kind of light , to be sure , but it only serves as a me- dium for a series of optical delusions ; and for all useful purposes of vision , the deepest darkness that ever fell from the heavens is infinitely preferable . A man perceives a ...
... kind of light , to be sure , but it only serves as a me- dium for a series of optical delusions ; and for all useful purposes of vision , the deepest darkness that ever fell from the heavens is infinitely preferable . A man perceives a ...
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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.