Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, Volumes 4-5Anna Maria Hall |
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... returned the board to its place , and cautiously descended and removed the ladder . I was just in time . When I got round to the front of the house , Sykes was stepping from the door to take , as he said , " a sniff o ' air , " which I ...
... returned the board to its place , and cautiously descended and removed the ladder . I was just in time . When I got round to the front of the house , Sykes was stepping from the door to take , as he said , " a sniff o ' air , " which I ...
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... returned Alice , playfully shak- ing her finger at her recumbent spouse ; " you shall not go to the pic - nic at all , you naughty boy , unless you behave better . Come , get up , " she continued , " if you lie down again you'll be ...
... returned Alice , playfully shak- ing her finger at her recumbent spouse ; " you shall not go to the pic - nic at all , you naughty boy , unless you behave better . Come , get up , " she continued , " if you lie down again you'll be ...
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... returned Alice , in surprise ; " but why do you ask ? What do you know of her ? 99 " No good , " returned Harry , mysteriously , shaking his head ; " but never mind , go on . " " I was only going to say , that I feel sure Kate must have ...
... returned Alice , in surprise ; " but why do you ask ? What do you know of her ? 99 " No good , " returned Harry , mysteriously , shaking his head ; " but never mind , go on . " " I was only going to say , that I feel sure Kate must have ...
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... returned Alice . " Don't let me be any obstacle ; carry off the Countess , and I will remain behind with that noble creature whom you style Don Whis- kerandos . I prefer him infinitely to you , he is so like a very well - trained baboon ...
... returned Alice . " Don't let me be any obstacle ; carry off the Countess , and I will remain behind with that noble creature whom you style Don Whis- kerandos . I prefer him infinitely to you , he is so like a very well - trained baboon ...
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... returned alone . " It's all right , " he said : " but come along , D'Almayne's order will clear our luggage also , and we can all get away together . " Then ensued a grand scena of bustle and confusion , during which , supported by her ...
... returned alone . " It's all right , " he said : " but come along , D'Almayne's order will clear our luggage also , and we can all get away together . " Then ensued a grand scena of bustle and confusion , during which , supported by her ...
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Page 235 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 283 - I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person." "Why, who," cries Jones, "dost thou take to be such a coward here besides thyself?
Page 202 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
Page 237 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Page 204 - Officers of justice have owned to me, that they have passed by such with warrants in their pockets against them without daring to apprehend them ; and, indeed, they could not be blamed for not exposing themselves to sure destruction ; for it is a melancholy truth, that, at this very day, a rogue no sooner gives the alarm, within certain purlieus, than twenty or thirty armed villains are found ready to come to his assistance.
Page 234 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Page 290 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country...
Page 208 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Page 112 - By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate• at once my lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day We read no more.
Page 202 - In short, the magistrate had too great an honour for truth, to suspect that she ever appeared in sordid apparel ; nor did he ever sully his sublime notions of that virtue, by uniting them with the mean ideas of poverty and distress.