The Shirburnian, Volumen1,Tema 1James Ellis, 1859 |
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... expected to stay till eleven o'clock serving them out . I thought how many would return to the fair dispenser , and wondered , as Bulwer might say , " What will she do with them ? " Curlpapers ? No , she wears bands . I give it up then ...
... expected to stay till eleven o'clock serving them out . I thought how many would return to the fair dispenser , and wondered , as Bulwer might say , " What will she do with them ? " Curlpapers ? No , she wears bands . I give it up then ...
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... expected ) winning with plenty to spare . Something else ensues , causing nearly the same amount of excitement as the first . But when the 200 yards race comes , the excitement is intense - one inch almost makes a difference . Another ...
... expected ) winning with plenty to spare . Something else ensues , causing nearly the same amount of excitement as the first . But when the 200 yards race comes , the excitement is intense - one inch almost makes a difference . Another ...
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... expected , as well from the nature of the subject as the extreme youth of the author , we meet here and there with some harshness of style and obscurity of diction , but in general the verses are smooth and musically sweet . Indeed this ...
... expected , as well from the nature of the subject as the extreme youth of the author , we meet here and there with some harshness of style and obscurity of diction , but in general the verses are smooth and musically sweet . Indeed this ...
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... expected to pay the price that is asked ; traffic would be too dull a routine if carried on in such a matter - of - fact way . So they jabber , gesticulate , fume and stamp all about a farthing or two , and seem highly satisfied with ...
... expected to pay the price that is asked ; traffic would be too dull a routine if carried on in such a matter - of - fact way . So they jabber , gesticulate , fume and stamp all about a farthing or two , and seem highly satisfied with ...
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... expected to begin again ! However , to cut it short , I got on rather better than I expected , until the pudding came - of course there was plum pudding , as these farmers , or rather their wives , make enough to last for at least a ...
... expected to begin again ! However , to cut it short , I got on rather better than I expected , until the pudding came - of course there was plum pudding , as these farmers , or rather their wives , make enough to last for at least a ...
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Página 40 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 45 - In the brier'd dell below; Hark! the death-owl loud doth sing To the nightmares, as they go: My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow-tree.
Página 206 - Change and the Mall* — to mingle • " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 135 - Three children sliding on the ice, Upon a summer's day, It so fell out, they all fell in, The rest they ran away.
Página 17 - Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Página 8 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Página 212 - And noblest, when she lifted up her eyes. However marr'd, of more than twice her years, Seam'd with an ancient swordcut on the cheek, And bruised and bronzed, she lifted up her eyes And loved him, with that love which was her doom.
Página 198 - That savours so much of relationship, That nothing occurs amiss; But a Cousin's lip. if you once unite With yours, in the quietest way, Instead of sleeping a wink that night, You'll be dreaming the following day. And people think it no harm, Tom, With a Cousin to hear you talk ; And no one feels any alarm, Tom, At a quiet, cousinly walk , — But, Tom, you'll soon find...
Página 211 - The great and guilty love he bare the Queen, In battle with the love he bare his lord, Had marred his face, and marked it ere his time. Another sinning on such heights with one, The flower of all the west and all the world, Had been the sleeker for it: but in him His mood was often like a fiend, and rose And drove him into wastes and solitudes For agony, who was yet a living soul.
Página 119 - It is a kind and accommodating spirit at which we must aim. When the two goats met on the bridge which was too narrow to allow them either to pass each other, or to return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over him, was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.