Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 30
עמוד 1
... face , which is somewhat lighted up in the evening sun by the magnum of generous claret which he has been sharing with his friend . The other moves a little unsteadily , with a hesitating step , which is not improved by the wine he has ...
... face , which is somewhat lighted up in the evening sun by the magnum of generous claret which he has been sharing with his friend . The other moves a little unsteadily , with a hesitating step , which is not improved by the wine he has ...
עמוד 7
... faces " which he loved , filled up with a haste that appeared quite unnecessary , if not insulting . One solitary country shopkeeper , who had come to London once a year during a long life , clung to our sable friend ; for he was the ...
... faces " which he loved , filled up with a haste that appeared quite unnecessary , if not insulting . One solitary country shopkeeper , who had come to London once a year during a long life , clung to our sable friend ; for he was the ...
עמוד 18
... face . " The dangers of opened vaults , and of mighty holes in the paving , fenced round with no protect- ing rail , and illuminated only by a glimmering rushlight in a dark street , seem to belong altoge- ther to some barbaric region ...
... face . " The dangers of opened vaults , and of mighty holes in the paving , fenced round with no protect- ing rail , and illuminated only by a glimmering rushlight in a dark street , seem to belong altoge- ther to some barbaric region ...
עמוד 47
... face of the shows , the gilding and varnish of the gaiety , fills the imagination . At Vauxhall we see Prince Lobkowitz's footmen , in very rich new liveries , bearing torches , and the Prince himself in a new sky - blue watered tabby ...
... face of the shows , the gilding and varnish of the gaiety , fills the imagination . At Vauxhall we see Prince Lobkowitz's footmen , in very rich new liveries , bearing torches , and the Prince himself in a new sky - blue watered tabby ...
עמוד 71
... France they spoil us ; " here the aristocrat is coquetting with the honours of author- ship in the face of his brother author . Perhaps the whole was meant for skilful flattery . Walpole's real WALPOLE'S WORLD OF LETTERS . 71.
... France they spoil us ; " here the aristocrat is coquetting with the honours of author- ship in the face of his brother author . Perhaps the whole was meant for skilful flattery . Walpole's real WALPOLE'S WORLD OF LETTERS . 71.
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
amongst ancient ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS Bekfudi black ditch bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap coach Court Crabbe eggs England English Essay Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel German happy heard HERMANN MELVILLE Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John Bunyan JOHN WILSON CROKER Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen Robert Jephson ROBERT SOUTHEY Royal 4to Royal 8vo says scene Second Edition shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vols Voltaire walk Walpole to Mann Walpole's Windsor Woodcuts writing young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 20 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
עמוד 161 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
עמוד 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
עמוד 141 - Rapine and Wrong and Fear usurp'd her place, And a bold, artful, surly, savage race; Who, only skill'd to take the finny tribe, The yearly dinner, or septennial bribe...
עמוד 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
עמוד 91 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
עמוד 85 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
עמוד 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
עמוד 27 - VAUX'S (WSW) Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum ; being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art preserved there. With 300 Woodcuts. Post Svo.
עמוד 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?