My Favorite Book-shelf: A Collection of Interesting & Instructive Reading from Famous AuthorsP. Elder, 1903 - 292 Seiten |
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... fortune when he was one of us . As I was wondering what this profusion of learning would end in , Will told us that Jack Freelove , who was a fellow of whim , made love to one of those ladies who throw away all their fondness on parrots ...
... fortune when he was one of us . As I was wondering what this profusion of learning would end in , Will told us that Jack Freelove , who was a fellow of whim , made love to one of those ladies who throw away all their fondness on parrots ...
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... fortune - teller , charlatan , etc. The splendid gifts which make a Seer are usually found among those whom Society calls " common or unclean . " These brutish beings are the chosen vessels in whom God has poured the elixirs which amaze ...
... fortune - teller , charlatan , etc. The splendid gifts which make a Seer are usually found among those whom Society calls " common or unclean . " These brutish beings are the chosen vessels in whom God has poured the elixirs which amaze ...
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... fortune - tellers , both male and female , are nearly always mendicants with untutored minds , beings apparently of coarse fibre , pebbles rolled over and over by the torrents of poverty , ground down in the ruts of existence , where ...
... fortune - tellers , both male and female , are nearly always mendicants with untutored minds , beings apparently of coarse fibre , pebbles rolled over and over by the torrents of poverty , ground down in the ruts of existence , where ...
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... fortune . I You , dear Sir , have now a new station , and have there- fore new cares and new employments . Life , as Life , as Cowley seems to say , ought to resemble a well - ordered poem , of which one rule , generally received , is ...
... fortune . I You , dear Sir , have now a new station , and have there- fore new cares and new employments . Life , as Life , as Cowley seems to say , ought to resemble a well - ordered poem , of which one rule , generally received , is ...
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... fortune . His figure was beautiful , but his manner was irresistible to either man or woman . It was by this engaging , graceful manner that he was enabled during all his war to connect the varied and jar- ring powers of the Grand ...
... fortune . His figure was beautiful , but his manner was irresistible to either man or woman . It was by this engaging , graceful manner that he was enabled during all his war to connect the varied and jar- ring powers of the Grand ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amusement Anne Hathaway architecture ARTHUR O'LEARY Aspenden beautiful better Bishop Butler Bo-bo brain Brummell called CAXTONIANA character Clairvoyance conversation death dinner effect enjoyment evil exercise eyes feel fortune genius give GLENCORE GOUT hand happy heart human hundred Johnson Julius Cæsar kind knew knowledge labor laugh LES MISERAbles less literary literature live look Lord Lord Chesterfield luxury Macaulay Madame Madame de Staël man's manner melancholy mind moral morning Napoleon nature never object observed old age once pain passion person PIOZZI pleasure poet poor practise present Prince sense Shakespeare sick Sir Horace society soul suffer talk taste tell temper things thought thousand tion uncon vanity VANITY FAIR virtue walk Warren Hastings White's Club whole wine woman words writing young Young Liar youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 135 - ... his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy against the face of all the facts and the clearest charge which judge had ever given, — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present, — without leaving the box, or any manner of consultation whatever, they brought in a simultaneous verdict of Not Guilty.
Seite 133 - Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think. He next stooped down to feel the pig, if there were any signs of life in it. He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth.
Seite 133 - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
Seite 278 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
Seite 135 - Evidence was given, the obnoxious food itself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig of which the culprits stood accused might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and, burning their...
Seite 141 - Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.
Seite 263 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Seite 25 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of...
Seite 109 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Seite 60 - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.