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... night , but he had only caught cuttle - fish , he told me . They were not good to eat -they required so much beating before they could be cooked . They seize the boats with their long straggling legs . " Did I hear of their clutching ...
... night , but he had only caught cuttle - fish , he told me . They were not good to eat -they required so much beating before they could be cooked . They seize the boats with their long straggling legs . " Did I hear of their clutching ...
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... night like this ; but French people are less cautious and chilly than we are , and indeed there are no insidious damps lurking in the keen dry atmosphere of Nor- mandy , no hidden dangers to fear as with us . To - night the mansarde ...
... night like this ; but French people are less cautious and chilly than we are , and indeed there are no insidious damps lurking in the keen dry atmosphere of Nor- mandy , no hidden dangers to fear as with us . To - night the mansarde ...
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... nights . When Richard Butler first came he arrived by this very Bayeux diligence and he was interested and amused as he would have been by a scene at the play . • It was by this same Bayeux diligence that he started early the next ...
... nights . When Richard Butler first came he arrived by this very Bayeux diligence and he was interested and amused as he would have been by a scene at the play . • It was by this same Bayeux diligence that he started early the next ...
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... night , and breakfast in London to - morrow morning . What should we do , " asked Fontaine , " without the aid of this useful and surprising invention ? " " Eh bien ! moi qui vous parle , Monsieur le Maire , " said Madame Binaud- " I ...
... night , and breakfast in London to - morrow morning . What should we do , " asked Fontaine , " without the aid of this useful and surprising invention ? " " Eh bien ! moi qui vous parle , Monsieur le Maire , " said Madame Binaud- " I ...
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... night and to listen to the dreary chirping of the crickets . For English people who have trees and shady groves at home , there are other things to do at Caen besides strolling along the dark Cours . There are the quais , and the quaint ...
... night and to listen to the dreary chirping of the crickets . For English people who have trees and shady groves at home , there are other things to do at Caen besides strolling along the dark Cours . There are the quais , and the quaint ...
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Page 148 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone ; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Page 221 - So each shall mourn, in life's advance, Dear hopes, dear friends, untimely killed ; Shall grieve for many a forfeit chance, And longing passion unfulfilled. Amen ! whatever fate be sent, Pray God the heart may kindly glow, Although the head with cares be bent, And whitened with the winter snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart.
Page 135 - Out of the eater came forth meat; out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Page 9 - Among the waste and lumber of the shore, Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn...
Page 73 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 87 - And husband nature's riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die...
Page 293 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.
Page 104 - That's free to give, or to recall. This crowns his feast with wine and wit: Who brought him to that mirth and state? His betters, see, below him sit, Or hunger hopeless at the gate. Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel To spurn the rags of Lazarus?
Page 205 - TT'ORGET not yet the tried intent -*- Of such a truth as I have meant ; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet...
Page 206 - FORGET not yet the tried intent Of such a truth as I have meant; My great travail so gladly spent, Forget not yet! Forget not yet when first began The weary life ye know, since when The suit, the service, none tell can; Forget not yet ! Forget not yet the great assays, The cruel wrong, the scornful ways, The painful patience in delays, Forget not yet!