Evenings away from home, by Ascott R. Hope |
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Abbing adventures afraid Alcastar Algy animals asked Balbus battle of Austerlitz Beesley began better boys brother called Cane castle Chanticleer cloth cocoa-nut cried dark Dick door Duke escape eyes father fellows felt fire Florella Freemasonry Fulgentius gave ghost giant gilt edges give GORDON BROWNE hand Hawk-eye head hear heard holidays hope horses Ivanhoe JACK ROBINSON Joe Sadler John Hogg king knew knife lady laugh Lessinge lived look master mind monkeys Morden morning Moustache Naples never night nuts oasis once palace Phillips pirate play prince rest Robinson Crusoe round Sadler scene seemed ship Sir Rufus sleep Small crown 8vo soon stood story supper sure sword tail tale tell thing thou thought told took tree turned Uglino Vialls wait walk Walkinshaw Whitminster wish young
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Seite 68 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Seite 349 - PATH. FOUR SONS OF ALBION. A GIRL'S STORY. AN ADVENTURER AT THE ANTIPODES. AN ADVENTURER AT HOME. " Mr. Hope is one of the best of living writers of boys' books, and we do not think we overestimate the merits of the book before us if we say it is one of his best. The idea is a happy one ..... The result is altogether as successful as the idea is happy."— Birmingham Dally Poit.
Seite 25 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old: I led him to a lonely field; The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold!
Seite 314 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Seite 142 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives— Followed the Piper for their lives.
Seite 264 - 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 351 - The book is compiled with great care, and will serve the purpose for which it is designed We may add that it contains a good deal of information which will be useful to students who have no wish to be numbered amongst versemakers." — Pall Mall Gazette. " A dainty little book on English verse-making. The Dictionary of Rhymes will be found one of the most complete and practical in our language.
Seite 339 - Foe's masterpiece, with all the twentytwo beautiful Illustrations from the Drawings by THOMAS STOTHARD, RA, engraved by CHARLES HEATH. These Illustrations are now printed from the Original Copper Plates, which were produced at great cost, and are still in perfect condition, having been steel-faced to preserve them. Copies of the Original Edition containing these plates, published by Messrs.
Seite 351 - Crown 8vo., cloth extra, bevelled boards, price 7s. 6d. The Manuale Clericorum : A Guide for the Reverent and Decent Celebration of Divine Service, the Holy Sacraments, and other Offices, according to the Rites, Ceremonies, and Ancient Use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Abridged from the