Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life, by the author of Fifteen years in India, Band 2 |
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... appearance indi- cated the extremity of wretchedness . Contradic- tion and uproar now began to spread . One party were for cutting off her nose , another for burning her alive , and a third for letting her go home . I thought there ...
... appearance indi- cated the extremity of wretchedness . Contradic- tion and uproar now began to spread . One party were for cutting off her nose , another for burning her alive , and a third for letting her go home . I thought there ...
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... appearance , as grand as a piano- forte , and about the same height . The lady who performs sits on a velvet stool , and with two muffled hammers plays any tune she pleases , by striking the steel plates , in the same manner as the ...
... appearance , as grand as a piano- forte , and about the same height . The lady who performs sits on a velvet stool , and with two muffled hammers plays any tune she pleases , by striking the steel plates , in the same manner as the ...
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... appearance of little islands , and scudded before a fine breeze past the western isles , where we ex- perienced another storm in which we had to lie- to for several hours . The sea was so tremendous that it sometimes broke over us in ...
... appearance of little islands , and scudded before a fine breeze past the western isles , where we ex- perienced another storm in which we had to lie- to for several hours . The sea was so tremendous that it sometimes broke over us in ...
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... appearance of every one in winter , with dissatis- faction . Instead of the pleasure I expected to fill my breast , on beholding objects once familiar , a melancholy sensation stole over my mind . Such is the effect of habit ; it ...
... appearance of every one in winter , with dissatis- faction . Instead of the pleasure I expected to fill my breast , on beholding objects once familiar , a melancholy sensation stole over my mind . Such is the effect of habit ; it ...
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... appearance of great wealth , at once proclaim a metropolis se- cond only to London itself . " But whilst my heart exulted at this external , and I felt the throb of realized hope in once more treading the terra firma of my own , my ...
... appearance of great wealth , at once proclaim a metropolis se- cond only to London itself . " But whilst my heart exulted at this external , and I felt the throb of realized hope in once more treading the terra firma of my own , my ...
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Seite 135 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 215 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
Seite 217 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Seite 167 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Seite 137 - When Heaven would kindly set us free, And earth's enchantment end ; It takes the most effectual means, And robs us of a friend.
Seite 296 - Such is the powre of that sweet passion, That it all sordid basenesse doth expell, And the refyned mynd doth newly fashion Unto a fairer forme, which now doth dwell In his high thought, that would it selfe excell, Which he beholding still with constant sight, Admires the mirrour of so heavenly light.
Seite 46 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Seite 127 - WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast. Who but sips of a sweet, and then flies to the rest ; And, when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, We may order our wings, and be off to the west...
Seite 95 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 38 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are linked in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing, and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die...