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... heard my poor father speak in terms of friendship , should be thus heedlessly hazarding life and pro- perty by a quarrel with a nobleman so powerful as Rochester ; and stranger still , that he should be able to recognise me after a ...
... heard my poor father speak in terms of friendship , should be thus heedlessly hazarding life and pro- perty by a quarrel with a nobleman so powerful as Rochester ; and stranger still , that he should be able to recognise me after a ...
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... heard , When the red light of summer eves is dying , The low , sweet warble of some unseen bird , Hymning the parting sunset , wild and lonely , As the wind - harp by ærial breathings stirr'd . Fit dirge for thee , Whose soul was music ...
... heard , When the red light of summer eves is dying , The low , sweet warble of some unseen bird , Hymning the parting sunset , wild and lonely , As the wind - harp by ærial breathings stirr'd . Fit dirge for thee , Whose soul was music ...
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... heard ; and seizing in an instant , and adapting to his purpose , anecdotes which to others might have seemed com- mon place , but which having passed through his crucible , came forth with the stamp of dramatic sublimity and pathos ...
... heard ; and seizing in an instant , and adapting to his purpose , anecdotes which to others might have seemed com- mon place , but which having passed through his crucible , came forth with the stamp of dramatic sublimity and pathos ...
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... heard distinctly in every apartment . This circumstance suggested to me , that I might as well hear the trial of a nisi- prius case , which had excited great ex- pectation . I therefore squeezed myself in , and began to take some ...
... heard distinctly in every apartment . This circumstance suggested to me , that I might as well hear the trial of a nisi- prius case , which had excited great ex- pectation . I therefore squeezed myself in , and began to take some ...
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... heard ; and if you are innocent , you have nothing to fear . " " Defence ! Never will I make one , " was my reply . " He who defends him- self under such an imputation , half admits it to be just . " The barrister , not entering into my ...
... heard ; and if you are innocent , you have nothing to fear . " " Defence ! Never will I make one , " was my reply . " He who defends him- self under such an imputation , half admits it to be just . " The barrister , not entering into my ...
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Página 396 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 293 - I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider -to the Fly. " There are pretty curtains drawn around ; the sheets are fine and thin, And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!
Página 293 - At last, Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast. He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den Within his little parlor — but she ne'er came out again! And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed; Unto an evil counsellor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.
Página 293 - Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with the pearl and silver wing; Your robes are green and purple, there's a crest upon your head; Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead...
Página 46 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 295 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride*< Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 286 - ... had swallowed them. The horrid noise of their closing jaws, their plunging amidst the broken banks of fish, and rising with their prey some feet upright above the water, the floods of water and blood rushing out of their mouths, and the clouds of vapour issuing from their wide nostrils, were truly frightful. This scene continued at intervals during the night, as the fish came to the pass.
Página 269 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.
Página 46 - There is a man, whose moral character, deep learning, and superior parts, I acknowledge, admire, and respect ; but whom it is so impossible for me to love, that I am almost in a fever whenever I am in his company. His figure (without being deformed) seems made to disgrace or ridicule the common structure of the human body. Hij legs and arms are never in the position which, according...
Página 388 - ... down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...