Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... laughing , she knew not why , and cared not wherefore . Now , the scene is changed they " walk in silk attire , " with artificial flowers on their heads , and soleless shoes on their feet ; picking their steps among the multitudinous ...
... laughing , she knew not why , and cared not wherefore . Now , the scene is changed they " walk in silk attire , " with artificial flowers on their heads , and soleless shoes on their feet ; picking their steps among the multitudinous ...
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... 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 , the exquisite poetry and divine ...
... 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 , the exquisite poetry and divine ...
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... laugh upon the most trivial occasion . If any body tells a joke with a grave face , she looks grave too ; but is mightily tic- kled with the hymeneal allusions and matrimonial witticisms of which the more mature part of the company are ...
... laugh upon the most trivial occasion . If any body tells a joke with a grave face , she looks grave too ; but is mightily tic- kled with the hymeneal allusions and matrimonial witticisms of which the more mature part of the company are ...
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... climax , the monstrous twistings and contortions of his visage , and the convulsions of his body rolling to and fro under an uncontrollable storm of laughter , are more amusing than any thing 112 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
... climax , the monstrous twistings and contortions of his visage , and the convulsions of his body rolling to and fro under an uncontrollable storm of laughter , are more amusing than any thing 112 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
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William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. storm of laughter , are more amusing than any thing on the boards . Again , where ... laugh , which is heard both loudly and distinctly : this places the owner somewhat in the 11 VOL . II . predicament ...
William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. storm of laughter , are more amusing than any thing on the boards . Again , where ... laugh , which is heard both loudly and distinctly : this places the owner somewhat in the 11 VOL . II . predicament ...
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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.