Bentley's Miscellany, Volumen26Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1849 |
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... course he was about to pursue . The letter lay before them yellow with age , soiled with dust and smoke , but with the seal entire . What years of sorrow - what protracted and ago- nising suspense had visited all those , -more or less ...
... course he was about to pursue . The letter lay before them yellow with age , soiled with dust and smoke , but with the seal entire . What years of sorrow - what protracted and ago- nising suspense had visited all those , -more or less ...
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... course he can take ; for if he were a man of action , and happened to run counter to popular pre- judices , he might find his seat rather uneasy . The insouciance with which he has contrived to rule this busy little country D 2 WAYSIDE ...
... course he can take ; for if he were a man of action , and happened to run counter to popular pre- judices , he might find his seat rather uneasy . The insouciance with which he has contrived to rule this busy little country D 2 WAYSIDE ...
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... course of time into Gand , and finally Frenchified into Ghent . Miraculous accounts of the antiquity of Ghent are supplied by the Flemish historians ; but no respectable proofs can be adduced of its existence earlier than the seventh or ...
... course of time into Gand , and finally Frenchified into Ghent . Miraculous accounts of the antiquity of Ghent are supplied by the Flemish historians ; but no respectable proofs can be adduced of its existence earlier than the seventh or ...
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... course of uninterrupted tran- quillity . The exemption from common cares and distractions , the consciousness of always performing strictly the routine of duties and obligations marked out for them , and the ready resource in the ...
... course of uninterrupted tran- quillity . The exemption from common cares and distractions , the consciousness of always performing strictly the routine of duties and obligations marked out for them , and the ready resource in the ...
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... course to Bruges . As you leave Ghent , the scenery on the banks ( which are planted , without a break , with regular lines of trees ) is full of variety , and rich in foliage , through which you get numerous sylvan perspectives ...
... course to Bruges . As you leave Ghent , the scenery on the banks ( which are planted , without a break , with regular lines of trees ) is full of variety , and rich in foliage , through which you get numerous sylvan perspectives ...
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Página 87 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 339 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Página 599 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 89 - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Página 398 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 604 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the...
Página 644 - Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
Página 623 - I defy thee, I, and thy stable of hobby-horses. I pay for my ground, as well as thou dost: an...
Página 93 - I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...
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