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... London I have no means of forming an accurate opinion ; but state- ments are before the public ( from the general cor- rectness of which I have no reason to withhold reliance and belief ) rating the pecuniary loss to the metropolis , in ...
... London I have no means of forming an accurate opinion ; but state- ments are before the public ( from the general cor- rectness of which I have no reason to withhold reliance and belief ) rating the pecuniary loss to the metropolis , in ...
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... London to York , or from York to London , or any other place on that road , let them repair to the Black Swan in Holbourn in London , and to the Black Swan in Coney - street in York . At both which places they may be received in a Stage ...
... London to York , or from York to London , or any other place on that road , let them repair to the Black Swan in Holbourn in London , and to the Black Swan in Coney - street in York . At both which places they may be received in a Stage ...
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... London : John Ollivier , Pall - mall . 1851 . AND filled with very pleasant and soothing to- bacco is our traveller's pipe . He is just the sort London : Arthur Hall , Virtue and Co. 1851 . of informant we should like to refer to , were ...
... London : John Ollivier , Pall - mall . 1851 . AND filled with very pleasant and soothing to- bacco is our traveller's pipe . He is just the sort London : Arthur Hall , Virtue and Co. 1851 . of informant we should like to refer to , were ...
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... London : Hamilton , Adams and Co. THIS work , without possessing the slightest claims to deep or scientific research , belongs to that class of books ordinarily included in the critical summary , ' well adapted for the drawing - room ...
... London : Hamilton , Adams and Co. THIS work , without possessing the slightest claims to deep or scientific research , belongs to that class of books ordinarily included in the critical summary , ' well adapted for the drawing - room ...
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... London , and for that of the en- tire kingdom , if this generous sentiment could find an echo in the breasts of our political commanders at the helm of state . In each single week , more public money is expended by them , in the present ...
... London , and for that of the en- tire kingdom , if this generous sentiment could find an echo in the breasts of our political commanders at the helm of state . In each single week , more public money is expended by them , in the present ...
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Page 115 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 188 - SHE CAME AND WENT As a twig trembles, which a bird Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent, So is my memory thrilled and stirred ; — I only know she came and went. As clasps some lake, by gusts unriven, The blue dome's measureless content, So my soul held that moment's heaven; — I only know she came and went.
Page 27 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 19 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 120 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 353 - Our Journal of this day presents to the public the practical result of the greatest improvement connected with printing since the discovery of the art itself. The reader of this paragraph now holds in his hand one of the many thousand impressions of The Times newspaper which were taken off last night by a mechanical apparatus.
Page 399 - I paid 15/. in a single year for repairs of carriage-springs on the pavement of London; and I now glide without noise or fracture, on wooden pavements. I can walk, by the assistance of the police, from one end of London to the other, without molestation; or, if tired, get into a cheap and active cab, instead of those cottages on wheels, which the hackney coaches were at the beginning of my life.
Page 59 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 377 - ... what a No. 5 you have now given us! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for making me shed them; and I never can bless and love you enough. Since the divine Nelly was found dead on her humble couch, beneath the snow and the ivy, there has been nothing like the actual dying of that sweet Paul, in the summer sunshine of that lofty room.
Page 233 - Passion, in him, comprehended many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler ; YOU COULD NOT SPEAK OF WEALTH, BUT HIS CHEEK PALED WITH GNAWING ENVY. The astonishing natural...