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... called the fidgets ; with coun- try gentlemen , in their decline , it becomes hypochondriasis . They cannot live as hard as they used to do , and so think they are dying as fast as they can . Your fox - hunters , and so forth , are ...
... called the fidgets ; with coun- try gentlemen , in their decline , it becomes hypochondriasis . They cannot live as hard as they used to do , and so think they are dying as fast as they can . Your fox - hunters , and so forth , are ...
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... called characters . My first care , therefore , on getting aboard , was to look out for originals ; but after the strictest scrutiny among the passengers , there appeared none of any mark or likeli- hood . However , at Gravesend , a ...
... called characters . My first care , therefore , on getting aboard , was to look out for originals ; but after the strictest scrutiny among the passengers , there appeared none of any mark or likeli- hood . However , at Gravesend , a ...
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... called , by a mon- strous sea , which had torn four men from the helm , where they were steering with a long iron tiller , and had thrown them luckily almost to the funnel instead of over the quarter , when they must inevitably have ...
... called , by a mon- strous sea , which had torn four men from the helm , where they were steering with a long iron tiller , and had thrown them luckily almost to the funnel instead of over the quarter , when they must inevitably have ...
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... called Holland . We had abun- dant leisure to observe the picturesque craft , with their high cabins , and cabin windows well furnished with flower - pots and frows , in fact , floating houses ; while the real houses , scarcely above ...
... called Holland . We had abun- dant leisure to observe the picturesque craft , with their high cabins , and cabin windows well furnished with flower - pots and frows , in fact , floating houses ; while the real houses , scarcely above ...
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... called us as much too late ; so that we had to save our passage and passage - money ( paid beforehand ) by a race to the quay . Short as the course was , it led to a great deal of what the turf - men call tailing . Your humble servant ...
... called us as much too late ; so that we had to save our passage and passage - money ( paid beforehand ) by a race to the quay . Short as the course was , it led to a great deal of what the turf - men call tailing . Your humble servant ...
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Page 389 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.
Page 415 - Chassenemi, who was rescued from the grave by the old lover Cariscendi. Also, the Honourable Mrs. Godfrey, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne, and sister of the great Duke of Marlborough, who lay in a trance for a week. Then there was Isabella Wilson, who, after eleven days of rigid insensibility, would have been entombed but for the interference of the Doctor, who felt some warmth about the heart ; and Mr. Cowherd, of Cartmell, Lancashire, who revived after being laid out ; and Isaac Rooke, who...
Page 237 - A SCHOOLMISTRESS ought not to travel — No, sir! No, madam — except on the map. There, indeed, she may skip from a blue continent to a green one — cross a pink isthmus — traverse a Red, Black, or Yellow Sea — land in a purple island, or roam in an orange desert, without danger or indecorum. There she may ascend dotted rivers, sojourn at capital cities, scale alps, and wade through bogs, without soiling her shoe, rumpling her satin, or showing her ankle. But as to practical travelling, —...
Page 5 - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 349 - Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon, have a dwelling place ; Where I may see my quill or cork down sink With eager bite of Perch, or Bleak, or Dace, And on the World and my Creator think ; Whilst some men strive ill-gotten goods t' embrace And others spend their time in base excess Of wine, or worse, in war and wantonness.