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A godfather was soon found for me , at the next door . An independant gentleman
of the name of BROOKS undertook this somewhat important charge , and he
fulfilled the trust reposed in him , in a way that pleased my parents and afterwards
...
A godfather was soon found for me , at the next door . An independant gentleman
of the name of BROOKS undertook this somewhat important charge , and he
fulfilled the trust reposed in him , in a way that pleased my parents and afterwards
...
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... the usual safeguards were provided ; a horse - shoe nailed on the threshhold
of the door ; and several other forms and ceremonies observed , which were
thought prudent , nay , in a certain degree necessary , on all such occasions . At
that ...
... the usual safeguards were provided ; a horse - shoe nailed on the threshhold
of the door ; and several other forms and ceremonies observed , which were
thought prudent , nay , in a certain degree necessary , on all such occasions . At
that ...
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... which he gave to the actors , and the persons to whom these speeches alluded
were invited by Mr . Bradshaw , and by him seated in a very conspicuous
situation near the stage doors ; the motives for so doing will presently appear .
One of ...
... which he gave to the actors , and the persons to whom these speeches alluded
were invited by Mr . Bradshaw , and by him seated in a very conspicuous
situation near the stage doors ; the motives for so doing will presently appear .
One of ...
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... and most provoking propensities of his whole family : a countryman briefly
announced tbat the people out of doors were all in a state of alarm , on account of
a robbery that had just been committed at a public - house in the market - place .
... and most provoking propensities of his whole family : a countryman briefly
announced tbat the people out of doors were all in a state of alarm , on account of
a robbery that had just been committed at a public - house in the market - place .
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The wind verges toward the North West ; - she cannot venture a foot from the
door lest a cold prove the precursor of a consumption . What matters it that the
sun is high and bright and the birds singing merrily and the village children , yet
more ...
The wind verges toward the North West ; - she cannot venture a foot from the
door lest a cold prove the precursor of a consumption . What matters it that the
sun is high and bright and the birds singing merrily and the village children , yet
more ...
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Página 120 - There is a tide in the affairs of man Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is spent In shallows and miseries.
Página 51 - ... scribbler, if ever there was one. He begins his recollections by telling the reader that ' he has known no regularity . . . his journey has been, like the comet's — eccentric '. Here is a self-revealing passage : I had imbibed early in life a taste of a romantic kind ; — a passion, perhaps common amongst young men whose minds are somewhat ardent, or in any degree enterprising. I had conceived a desire of notice, of notoriety of some kind or other. If not talented, so as to be capable of obtaining...
Página 82 - I'm each apartment seeking, But noxious vapours every where are reeking ! Put to strange shifts, and numerous shifts while trying, I'm shivering wet, while all things round are drying. 'Tis worse, far worse, than standing with bare feet. At Christmas, doing penance in a sheet ! I pace the garden, heavy as a sledge, " Linen (as Falstaff says) on every hedge.
Página 18 - What a piece of work is man ! ... in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god !
Página 126 - CAT — (notwith^anding its nine lives !) could not have lived long in such an exhausted atmosphere. I say exhausted, because there was no vital air, no oxygen, left unconsumed within it. As to the crowd at the top of the stairs, life was sustained in them only by the occasional whiffs of pure [air that came up from the gallery door- way.
Página 84 - ... upon the lady, and perhaps is the only part of her conduct that is reprehensible ; for, say what we will, if she did not mean to give his passion a suitable return, why did she feed him with hopes even to the last ?— for was not this feeding him with hopes?— false hopes...
Página 84 - ... which she happened just then to be using-, her left hand being thrust into a silk stocking, with a new Whitechapel needle stuck therein This peculiar incident was categorically noticed at the coroner's inquest, and considered of very material consequence : The lady however not relaxing in her cruelly, Mr. Bateman's
Página 83 - This gentleman, a pattern to all true lovers— suspended himself from the bough of a tree, in the garden belonging to the young lady who was the object of his passion. Mr. Bateman's biographers differ in one...
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