Peter's Letters to His KinsfolkC. S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich street, 1820 - 575 страници |
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... sort of stupor of admiration . Excuse my troubling you with all this , now that I have written it ; but do not be alarmed with any fear , lest I should propose to treat you with much more of the same kind of diet . I have no intention ...
... sort of stupor of admiration . Excuse my troubling you with all this , now that I have written it ; but do not be alarmed with any fear , lest I should propose to treat you with much more of the same kind of diet . I have no intention ...
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... - milk cheese , which I found as good as any thing which ever came from the Pays de Vaud , and a glass of ale , such as I could not beat even in Cardigan , formed a sort of appendage to the feast ; and PETER'S LETTERS . 11.
... - milk cheese , which I found as good as any thing which ever came from the Pays de Vaud , and a glass of ale , such as I could not beat even in Cardigan , formed a sort of appendage to the feast ; and PETER'S LETTERS . 11.
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John Gibson Lockhart. formed a sort of appendage to the feast ; and just before the cloth was drawn , I tasted , for the first time , a liqueur , which I prefer vastly to all the Marasquin - ay , to all the Curacoa in existence - the ...
John Gibson Lockhart. formed a sort of appendage to the feast ; and just before the cloth was drawn , I tasted , for the first time , a liqueur , which I prefer vastly to all the Marasquin - ay , to all the Curacoa in existence - the ...
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... sort were to be seen in abundance in the city of London , and that even I myself had been wearied of counting the fleurs - de - lis carved on every roof and chimney piece of a green grocer's habitation in Mincing - lane . Of such food ...
... sort were to be seen in abundance in the city of London , and that even I myself had been wearied of counting the fleurs - de - lis carved on every roof and chimney piece of a green grocer's habitation in Mincing - lane . Of such food ...
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... sort of common - place sarcasms their southern neighbours are used to treat them with . Indeed , no one who has seen a Scots regiment , as I should suppose you must have done , can possibly be of opinion that they are at all an ugly na ...
... sort of common - place sarcasms their southern neighbours are used to treat them with . Indeed , no one who has seen a Scots regiment , as I should suppose you must have done , can possibly be of opinion that they are at all an ugly na ...
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Страница 124 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Страница 102 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Страница 70 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Страница 345 - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Страница 398 - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
Страница 80 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Страница 340 - ... so thick the aery crowd swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed in bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room throng numberless...
Страница 494 - As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes...
Страница 76 - I AM a son of Mars who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, and that other in a trench, When welcoming the French at the sound of the drum.
Страница 76 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...