The Frozen Deep and Other TalesChatto and Windus, 1875 - 322 páginas The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as we are (or are not) accustomed to in Collins' books. |
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Página 139
... horses to hold , and a lady to take care of . By way of adding to my responsibilities , it so happens that one of the horses is dead lame , and that the lady is my wife . Who am I ? —you will ask . There is plenty of time to answer the ...
... horses to hold , and a lady to take care of . By way of adding to my responsibilities , it so happens that one of the horses is dead lame , and that the lady is my wife . Who am I ? —you will ask . There is plenty of time to answer the ...
Página 140
... inn yard ? and why am I obliged to turn groom , and hold the horses ? We live for the most part in France - at the country house in which my wife and I first met . Occasionally , by way of variety , we pay visits 140 THE DREAM WOMAN .
... inn yard ? and why am I obliged to turn groom , and hold the horses ? We live for the most part in France - at the country house in which my wife and I first met . Occasionally , by way of variety , we pay visits 140 THE DREAM WOMAN .
Página 141
... horses in my friend's stables . We are quite unworthy of that distinction ; for we know nothing , and care nothing , about hunting . On the other hand , we delight in riding , and we enjoy the breezy spring morning and the fair and ...
... horses in my friend's stables . We are quite unworthy of that distinction ; for we know nothing , and care nothing , about hunting . On the other hand , we delight in riding , and we enjoy the breezy spring morning and the fair and ...
Página 142
... horse sets one of his fore - feet on a loose stone , and stumbles . His rider's ready hand saves him from falling . But , at the first attempt he makes to go on , the sad truth shows itself — a tendon is strained ; the horse is lame ...
... horse sets one of his fore - feet on a loose stone , and stumbles . His rider's ready hand saves him from falling . But , at the first attempt he makes to go on , the sad truth shows itself — a tendon is strained ; the horse is lame ...
Página 143
... horse will not allow her a moment's repose ; she is beginning to lose her temper . " We can't go fourteen miles in ... horses , and to hire a car- riage to take us back to Farleigh Hall . Where can we do that ? The peasant answers ( with ...
... horse will not allow her a moment's repose ; she is beginning to lose her temper . " We can't go fourteen miles in ... horses , and to hire a car- riage to take us back to Farleigh Hall . Where can we do that ? The peasant answers ( with ...
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Página 316 - Cyclopaedia of Costume ; or, A Dictionary of Dress — Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military — from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By JR PLANCHE, Somerset Herald.
Página 16 - History of Caricature and of the Grotesque in Art, Literature, Sculpture, and Painting, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By THOMAS WRIGHT, MA, FSA Profusely illustrated by FW FAIRHOLT, FSA...
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Página 319 - A complete edition of Lamb's •writings, in prose and verse, has long been wanted, and is now supplied. The editor appears to have taken great pains to bring together Lamb's scattered contributions, and his collection contains a number of pieces which are now reproduced for the first time since their original appearance in various old periodicals
Página 10 - MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623...
Página 320 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Página 15 - Vagabondiana ; or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London ; with Portraits of the most Remarkable, drawn from the Life by JOHN THOMAS SMITH, late Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. With Introduction by FRANCIS DOUCE, and Descriptive Text. With the Woodcuts and the 32 Plates, from the original Coppers.
Página 310 - As Pretty as Seven, and other German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brothers GRIMM, and 100 Illusts.
Página 7 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.