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... means averse to Hang or Swing , Tin or Tung ; but these she had never seen ; and her father , believing that if she engaged herself under such circumstances , she might repent when she became acquainted with the parties , had withheld ...
... means averse to Hang or Swing , Tin or Tung ; but these she had never seen ; and her father , believing that if she engaged herself under such circumstances , she might repent when she became acquainted with the parties , had withheld ...
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... means were quite inadequate , he was driven to curious shifts at times , in the vulgar words of the West , to procure salt for his por- ridge , or indeed porridge for his salt . Ho - Fi heard all the tongues in the neighbourhood ...
... means were quite inadequate , he was driven to curious shifts at times , in the vulgar words of the West , to procure salt for his por- ridge , or indeed porridge for his salt . Ho - Fi heard all the tongues in the neighbourhood ...
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... means to gratify the other ; and the only occasions of strife that arose between them were when each endeavoured to force upon the other the choicest morsels of fox , or ferret , or frog , or whatever constituted their delicate little ...
... means to gratify the other ; and the only occasions of strife that arose between them were when each endeavoured to force upon the other the choicest morsels of fox , or ferret , or frog , or whatever constituted their delicate little ...
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... means of making his half - crown go as far as five shillings in former days , has usually a club to dine at , and leaves Rupert - Street eating - houses to persons of a different grade- to some of those dubious dandies whom one sees ...
... means of making his half - crown go as far as five shillings in former days , has usually a club to dine at , and leaves Rupert - Street eating - houses to persons of a different grade- to some of those dubious dandies whom one sees ...
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... mean precau- tion . Unless very low in the world , be above a proceeding so petty . Once I knew a French lady , very ... means of this dastardly ruse , I quitted the room with disgust , and never was intimate with her as before . A widow ...
... mean precau- tion . Unless very low in the world , be above a proceeding so petty . Once I knew a French lady , very ... means of this dastardly ruse , I quitted the room with disgust , and never was intimate with her as before . A widow ...
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Página 201 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 6 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 202 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 202 - Above them all the arch-angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge...
Página 205 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 202 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Página 433 - Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him...
Página 200 - Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle, And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle.
Página 536 - Only Dick Christian,';}; answers Lord Forester, ' and it is nothing new to him.' ' But he'll be drowned,' exclaims Lord Kinnaird. ' I shouldn't wonder,
Página 6 - ... and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and ablest judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island.