Once a Week, Volume 2Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1866 |
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Pagina 6
... living as go- vernesses and schoolmistresses , from strug- gling curates , from speculative squires , from all sorts and descriptions of people , who swal- lowed the bait as greedily as hungry fishes , and who feel the hook that bait ...
... living as go- vernesses and schoolmistresses , from strug- gling curates , from speculative squires , from all sorts and descriptions of people , who swal- lowed the bait as greedily as hungry fishes , and who feel the hook that bait ...
Pagina 11
... living man mounted on an ozier horse . His legs , as represented in the sketch , are not his own . Though apparently mounted , he is actually on his own feet , and carries the horse on which he seems to ride , as we often see on the ...
... living man mounted on an ozier horse . His legs , as represented in the sketch , are not his own . Though apparently mounted , he is actually on his own feet , and carries the horse on which he seems to ride , as we often see on the ...
Pagina 22
... living . At any rate she gave him his congé with many grateful words , but a plain intimation that it was not at Sussy he must seek for a wife . Those who are able to believe in the working of miracles in later days than the ages of ...
... living . At any rate she gave him his congé with many grateful words , but a plain intimation that it was not at Sussy he must seek for a wife . Those who are able to believe in the working of miracles in later days than the ages of ...
Pagina 24
... living freight were bid to leave the carriages , and , quiet as mice or men in am- bush , to follow their leader . Silently were they marshalled through the town on to the noble common , a common that has remained for more than ten ...
... living freight were bid to leave the carriages , and , quiet as mice or men in am- bush , to follow their leader . Silently were they marshalled through the town on to the noble common , a common that has remained for more than ten ...
Pagina 33
... living knoweth the secret thereof . Every name likely and unlikely is thought of , every word containing the proper number of letters is brought to bear on the mystery unsuccessfully , till , be- hold , a chance phrase suggests an idea ...
... living knoweth the secret thereof . Every name likely and unlikely is thought of , every word containing the proper number of letters is brought to bear on the mystery unsuccessfully , till , be- hold , a chance phrase suggests an idea ...
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answered appeared Aschersleben asked Aunt Lotty Avice Barbour Barlow Beachville beautiful better Blatherwick called Carmichael Chester child church Comedy of Errors course dear door Doris Douay eyes face father feet Frank Hobson Gainswoode girl give Gresford hand head heard heart HOBSON'S CHOICE horses hour Joyce king knew lady land Lawrence leave light living London look Lord Lynn Marchin marriage married Matilda Milner matter mind Miss Brown Miss Hobson Miss Milner morning needle-gun never night Olivine once Osyth Othello Paestum passed Percy Forbes perhaps Petrarch poor river round seemed seen side Sondes Sophy Brown Stanton Lacy Street suppose Sutton Hill talk tell thing thought tion told Tomkisson took town turned Vaucluse whilst wife wish woman words young
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Pagina 97 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Pagina 242 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Pagina 160 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Pagina 70 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Pagina 377 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Pagina 533 - ... other side is to drive in before him; or to see a duel fought and one slain with two or three thrusts of the...
Pagina 222 - Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy ; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak him full of grace.
Pagina 364 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 105 - The mode of motion changes, but it still continues motion; the motion of the mass is converted into a motion of the atoms of the mass; and these small motions, communicated to the nerves, produce the sensation which we call heat. We moreover know the amount of heat which a given amount of mechanical force can develope.
Pagina 446 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ! Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.