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Being divided into several small bands, those who were the first to arrive entered
the place without difficulty ; bnt others, which arrived at a late hour, found the
gates closed. These began to utter aloud their complaints, and to exclaim against
so ...
Being divided into several small bands, those who were the first to arrive entered
the place without difficulty ; bnt others, which arrived at a late hour, found the
gates closed. These began to utter aloud their complaints, and to exclaim against
so ...
Page 66
Judge of the horror of my situation ; I endeavoured to conceal it from his wife, and
I believe I succeeded Well, sir, I managed, somehow or other, to get up to London
: it was a Saturday night when I started ; I arrived in town about seven o'clock ...
Judge of the horror of my situation ; I endeavoured to conceal it from his wife, and
I believe I succeeded Well, sir, I managed, somehow or other, to get up to London
: it was a Saturday night when I started ; I arrived in town about seven o'clock ...
Page 182
Perhaps she might arrive too late even to witness the last moments of the
unfortunate Leopold, whose fate she knew was ... When she arrived at Warsaw,
she saw none of whom she could inquire what sho so much wished, yet dreaded
to ...
Perhaps she might arrive too late even to witness the last moments of the
unfortunate Leopold, whose fate she knew was ... When she arrived at Warsaw,
she saw none of whom she could inquire what sho so much wished, yet dreaded
to ...
Page 272
He was obliged to repair to London immediately after his arrival, whence he
purposed setting off for the north of England, where ... The night preceding his
departure arrived, and he fell asleep in excellent health and spirits ; but awoke
from his ...
He was obliged to repair to London immediately after his arrival, whence he
purposed setting off for the north of England, where ... The night preceding his
departure arrived, and he fell asleep in excellent health and spirits ; but awoke
from his ...
Page 272
It was at the hour of nine, in an August evening, that a solitary horseman arrived
at the Black Swan, a country inn about nine miles from the town of Leicester. He
was mounted on a large fiery charger, as black as jet, and had behind him a ...
It was at the hour of nine, in an August evening, that a solitary horseman arrived
at the Black Swan, a country inn about nine miles from the town of Leicester. He
was mounted on a large fiery charger, as black as jet, and had behind him a ...
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Page 253 - 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 239 - Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.
Page 216 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 259 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 283 - Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Page 65 - Those who approach the study of this interesting subject with unbiassed minds will readily perceive that there must have existed an early period of lawlessness, in which it was with women as with other kinds of property, " that he should take who had the power, and he should keep who can"; that wives were first obtained by force, then by theft, and later by trade and bargain.
Page 214 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 97 - The Jolly Beggars, for humorous description and nice discrimination of character, is inferior to no poem of the same length in the whole range of English poetry. The scene indeed is laid in the very lowest department of low life, the actors being a set of strolling vagrants, met to carouse, and barter their rags and plunder for liquor in a hedge alehouse.
Page 145 - Tower Menagerie; comprising the Natural History of the Animals contained in that Establishment, with Anecdotes of their Characters and History. Illustrated by Portraits of each, taken from life, by William Harvey, [and engraved on Wood by Branston and Wright.
Page 228 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.