Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... flippant aad self - satisfied manner a question involving the most vexing and perplex- ing difficulties , and pass their silly censures and give their witless advice upon a subject of which they are The Drama as it is,............
... flippant aad self - satisfied manner a question involving the most vexing and perplex- ing difficulties , and pass their silly censures and give their witless advice upon a subject of which they are The Drama as it is,............
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... though I listened to them in a devotedly decorous One individual alone attracted my atten- tion . He was a middle - aged man , about the mid- manner . dle height , and neither very corpulent nor other- wise The Man of the Fly-Market Ferry,
... though I listened to them in a devotedly decorous One individual alone attracted my atten- tion . He was a middle - aged man , about the mid- manner . dle height , and neither very corpulent nor other- wise 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 5 VOL . II . 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 5 VOL . II . 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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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.