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... town of Elsinore , clean , neat , and unassuming . The opposite shore , about five miles distant , was the coast of Sweden - bleak , barren , and inhospitable ; and the eye gladly turned again to the woods of Denmark , and the long hill ...
... town of Elsinore , clean , neat , and unassuming . The opposite shore , about five miles distant , was the coast of Sweden - bleak , barren , and inhospitable ; and the eye gladly turned again to the woods of Denmark , and the long hill ...
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... town within range of the guns of the castle . Our boat had hardly entered the little port before it was hailed by a sentinel , who was marching to and fro upon the narrow pier , and ordered to come alongside . We obeyed , and the ...
... town within range of the guns of the castle . Our boat had hardly entered the little port before it was hailed by a sentinel , who was marching to and fro upon the narrow pier , and ordered to come alongside . We obeyed , and the ...
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... town . Here a fierce - looking young officer handed me , a chair , and requested my passport , which I pro- duced ; it was written in French , and the con- tents mightily puzzled the inspector , who after several severe contortions of ...
... town . Here a fierce - looking young officer handed me , a chair , and requested my passport , which I pro- duced ; it was written in French , and the con- tents mightily puzzled the inspector , who after several severe contortions of ...
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... town . As I walked up the narrow street with my companion the sailor , musing upon the scene that had just occurred , I began rather to despond at the prospect of remaining in a country where I could neither understand the language nor ...
... town . As I walked up the narrow street with my companion the sailor , musing upon the scene that had just occurred , I began rather to despond at the prospect of remaining in a country where I could neither understand the language nor ...
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... town ; some of the streets are very narrow , whilst others are of tolerable width . All the approaches to the town are defended by barriers ; and the town itself is one of the cleanest I ever beheld . There are clean window - curtains ...
... town ; some of the streets are very narrow , whilst others are of tolerable width . All the approaches to the town are defended by barriers ; and the town itself is one of the cleanest I ever beheld . There are clean window - curtains ...
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Page 233 - 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...
Page 117 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 93 - ... into four or five parts; and other five years, at least, to learn succinctly to mix and interweave them after a subtle and intricate manner: let us leave all this to those who make a profession of it.
Page 96 - ... supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness; and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts, that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy.
Page 93 - But, withal, let my governor remember to what end his instructions are principally directed, and that he do not so much imprint in his pupil's memory the date of the ruin of Carthage, as the manners of Hannibal and Scipio; nor so much where Marcellus died, as why it was unworthy of his duty that he died there.
Page 82 - For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeakable and sweet variety, that some count him unhappy that never travelled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case that from his cradle to his old age beholds the same still ; still, still the same, the same...
Page 93 - With such a one compare, after fifteen or sixteen years' study, one of our college Latinists, who has thrown away so much time in nothing but learning to speak. The world is nothing but babble ; and I never yet saw that man who did not rather prate too much than speak too little ; and yet half of our lives is lost this way. We are kept four or five years to learn words only, and to tack them together into...
Page 185 - Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions, mixed with love And sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned Union of mind, or in us both one soul; Harmony to behold in wedded pair More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.
Page 106 - ... wings to the earth, and runs to the distance of several feet, calling ' Cluck ! Cluck ! Cluck !' during which time he is said to be incapable of seeing (so wrapt up is he in his own contemplations), and may be caught even with the hand by those who are near enough. As the fit lasts only a few moments, the sportsman must, if unready, wait for the next occasion : for, should he advance a step, except when the bird is thus insensible, he will certainly be overheard, and the victim escape. The man...
Page 155 - Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams...