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... told Sinclair , that he was in a house death for wearing oakboughs in their that evening where eighteen of them hats on the 29th of May - another were drinking , as the facetious land- badge of the beloved Stuarts . It is lady said ...
... told Sinclair , that he was in a house death for wearing oakboughs in their that evening where eighteen of them hats on the 29th of May - another were drinking , as the facetious land- badge of the beloved Stuarts . It is lady said ...
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... told in a thousand French memoirs . Our George II . , at least , was not a worse king than his neigh- bors . He claimed and took the royal exemption from doing right which sovereigns assumed . A dull little man of low tastes he appears ...
... told in a thousand French memoirs . Our George II . , at least , was not a worse king than his neigh- bors . He claimed and took the royal exemption from doing right which sovereigns assumed . A dull little man of low tastes he appears ...
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... told to romancers in general , that that famous the honor of Caroline of Anspach , duel could have taken place . The that , at the time when German two sovereigns hated each other with princes thought no more of changing all their might ...
... told to romancers in general , that that famous the honor of Caroline of Anspach , duel could have taken place . The that , at the time when German two sovereigns hated each other with princes thought no more of changing all their might ...
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... told him she was tired of seeing him count them . He was not an august monarch , this Au- gustus . Walpole tells how , one night at the royal card - table , the playful princesses pulled a chair away from under Lady Deloraine , who , in ...
... told him she was tired of seeing him count them . He was not an august monarch , this Au- gustus . Walpole tells how , one night at the royal card - table , the playful princesses pulled a chair away from under Lady Deloraine , who , in ...
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... told him about me ? he asked . He His mother's bigotry and hatred he inherited with the courageous obsti- nacy of his own race ; but he was a firm believer where his fathers had been free - thinkers , and a true and fond supporter of ...
... told him about me ? he asked . He His mother's bigotry and hatred he inherited with the courageous obsti- nacy of his own race ; but he was a firm believer where his fathers had been free - thinkers , and a true and fond supporter of ...
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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.