Littell's Living Age, Τόμος 161Living Age Company Incorporated, 1884 |
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... half like being told that the fly - away coat- tails and tight breeches in the corner were for the young gentlemen , and that some- thing more suitable would be forthcoming for them ; whilst their portly spouses whispered merrily behind ...
... half like being told that the fly - away coat- tails and tight breeches in the corner were for the young gentlemen , and that some- thing more suitable would be forthcoming for them ; whilst their portly spouses whispered merrily behind ...
Σελίδα 29
... half - a - crown . And a nice room it was . It was a garret at the far end of a court ; which court you reached by pass- ing under a foul archway out of a filthy by - street . Needless to say that the floor Phoebe's sister had been a ...
... half - a - crown . And a nice room it was . It was a garret at the far end of a court ; which court you reached by pass- ing under a foul archway out of a filthy by - street . Needless to say that the floor Phoebe's sister had been a ...
Σελίδα 31
... half disappeared ; in a very few moments not a trace of the embossed inscription re- mained , but there on the table lay a crowd of coins , impossible to guess at the sum they represented . After gazing at them for an instant , Phoebe ...
... half disappeared ; in a very few moments not a trace of the embossed inscription re- mained , but there on the table lay a crowd of coins , impossible to guess at the sum they represented . After gazing at them for an instant , Phoebe ...
Σελίδα 72
... half as much again to - day as it did ten years ago , because the wages of all the men employed have risen half as much again . The re- sult is , that the builder cannot get a rea sonable interest on his capital , that build- ing is at ...
... half as much again to - day as it did ten years ago , because the wages of all the men employed have risen half as much again . The re- sult is , that the builder cannot get a rea sonable interest on his capital , that build- ing is at ...
Σελίδα 85
... half the afternoon on her hands , Teddy being busy at the skat ing - ponds , which were to be cleared , swept , and tidied , in view of the approaching Christmas Eve . That Christmas Eve , it must be remarked , was the evening of the ...
... half the afternoon on her hands , Teddy being busy at the skat ing - ponds , which were to be cleared , swept , and tidied , in view of the approaching Christmas Eve . That Christmas Eve , it must be remarked , was the evening of the ...
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Σελίδα 547 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Σελίδα 518 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Σελίδα 346 - And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Σελίδα 350 - And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Σελίδα 529 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Σελίδα 5 - ... kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree : the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Σελίδα 207 - They precisely suit my taste; solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of.
Σελίδα 472 - 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.
Σελίδα 539 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Σελίδα 210 - He told him, that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every company : to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could put it in...