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... once thirty years afterwards all this we might have had , but for the pulveris exigui jactu , that little toss of powder for the hair which the Scotch conspirators stopped to take at the tavern . ― As one thinks of what might have been ...
... once thirty years afterwards all this we might have had , but for the pulveris exigui jactu , that little toss of powder for the hair which the Scotch conspirators stopped to take at the tavern . ― As one thinks of what might have been ...
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... once stood , a hundred little children are paddling up and down the steps to St. James's Park . A score of grave gentlemen are taking their tea at the " Athenæ- um Club ; " as many grizzly warriors are garrisoning the " United Service ...
... once stood , a hundred little children are paddling up and down the steps to St. James's Park . A score of grave gentlemen are taking their tea at the " Athenæ- um Club ; " as many grizzly warriors are garrisoning the " United Service ...
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... once , and draw- ing it to amuse the child the boy started back and turned pale . The Prince felt a generous shock : " What must they have told him about me ? he asked . He His mother's bigotry and hatred he inherited with the ...
... once , and draw- ing it to amuse the child the boy started back and turned pale . The Prince felt a generous shock : " What must they have told him about me ? he asked . He His mother's bigotry and hatred he inherited with the ...
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... once , and the music and words which he selected were from " Samson Agonistes , " and all had reference to his blindness , his captivity , and his affliction . He would beat time with his music - roll as they sang the anthem in the ...
... once , and the music and words which he selected were from " Samson Agonistes , " and all had reference to his blindness , his captivity , and his affliction . He would beat time with his music - roll as they sang the anthem in the ...
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... once , and who was cast lower than the poorest dead whom millions prayed for in vain Driven off his throne ; buffeted by rude hands ; with his children in re volt ; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely ; our Lear hangs ...
... once , and who was cast lower than the poorest dead whom millions prayed for in vain Driven off his throne ; buffeted by rude hands ; with his children in re volt ; the darling of his old age killed before him untimely ; our Lear hangs ...
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Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The history of Samuel Titmarsh, Volume 1 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização completa - 1849 |
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Página 48 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 149 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 82 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 194 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Página 111 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 149 - Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Página 84 - At ninety they lose their teeth and hair, they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue without increasing or diminishing. In talking they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.
Página 142 - As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing. When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. We showed it to Congreve ; who, after reading it over, said, it would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Página 109 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 188 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.