Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, Volume 14George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1865 - English periodicals |
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... suppose there are times in which the literature of the world would come to a dead stop , uni- versal bankruptcy . And to think that we should read any trash just because it happens to have been written yesterday , while the dust gathers ...
... suppose there are times in which the literature of the world would come to a dead stop , uni- versal bankruptcy . And to think that we should read any trash just because it happens to have been written yesterday , while the dust gathers ...
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... suppose they have told your maid where she is to carry all those fragile bonnet - boxes and precious morocco bags , which a well- trained Abigail never intrusts to the rough grasp of the ruder sex . " " Dear Sir Jasper , " exclaimed Mrs ...
... suppose they have told your maid where she is to carry all those fragile bonnet - boxes and precious morocco bags , which a well- trained Abigail never intrusts to the rough grasp of the ruder sex . " " Dear Sir Jasper , " exclaimed Mrs ...
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... Suppose you give me your purse offhand , as they do on the stage , " said Mr. Catheron , as the widow produced her portemonnaie . But Mrs. Harding was not a benefactress of the order so common in melodrama ; she opened the portemonnaie ...
... Suppose you give me your purse offhand , as they do on the stage , " said Mr. Catheron , as the widow produced her portemonnaie . But Mrs. Harding was not a benefactress of the order so common in melodrama ; she opened the portemonnaie ...
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... suppose , papa , before you dress ? " " Dress for dinner ! " cried Sir Jasper . " How inscrutable are the formulas of civilisation ! My velvet dressing - gown is really a handsome and not altogether unpicturesque garment , with easy ...
... suppose , papa , before you dress ? " " Dress for dinner ! " cried Sir Jasper . " How inscrutable are the formulas of civilisation ! My velvet dressing - gown is really a handsome and not altogether unpicturesque garment , with easy ...
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... Suppose you start with me on one of these pedestrian excursions down Broadway . We will assume that you and I have some business to transact down town together . Let us look at the agenda of the day . Item , we want some money ; so we ...
... Suppose you start with me on one of these pedestrian excursions down Broadway . We will assume that you and I have some business to transact down town together . Let us look at the agenda of the day . Item , we want some money ; so we ...
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Page 288 - And now her eyes grew bright, and brighter still, Too bright for ours to look upon, suffused With many tears, and closed without a cloud. They set as sets the morning star, which goes • Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Page 116 - Here, early to bed, lies kind WILLIAM MAGINN, Who, with genius, wit, learning, Life's trophies to win, Had neither great Lord nor rich cit of his kin, Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; So his...