Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 29
עמוד 53
... pounds . " * The genius of gambling might be painted , like Garrick , be- tween the tragic and the comic muse . We turn over the page , and comedy again presents herself , in an attitude that looks very like the hoyden step of her half ...
... pounds . " * The genius of gambling might be painted , like Garrick , be- tween the tragic and the comic muse . We turn over the page , and comedy again presents herself , in an attitude that looks very like the hoyden step of her half ...
עמוד 64
... pounds a - year to her , and a hundred a - year to Signora la Madre . Griselda made a con- fidence to a staymaker's wife , who told her that the swain was certainly in love enough to marry her , if she could determine to be virtuous and ...
... pounds a - year to her , and a hundred a - year to Signora la Madre . Griselda made a con- fidence to a staymaker's wife , who told her that the swain was certainly in love enough to marry her , if she could determine to be virtuous and ...
עמוד 65
... pounds each ; he soon lost a thousand . . . . . Two nights afterwards , he found himself so impatient , that he sent for a parson . The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without license or ring : the Duke swore he would send for ...
... pounds each ; he soon lost a thousand . . . . . Two nights afterwards , he found himself so impatient , that he sent for a parson . The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without license or ring : the Duke swore he would send for ...
עמוד 139
... pounds , and flattered myself this would be suffi- cient to supply me with the common necessaries of life till my abilities should procure me more ; of these I had the highest opinion , and a poetical vanity contributed to my delusion ...
... pounds , and flattered myself this would be suffi- cient to supply me with the common necessaries of life till my abilities should procure me more ; of these I had the highest opinion , and a poetical vanity contributed to my delusion ...
עמוד 140
... pounds . During these twenty - five years , when Crabbe was living in the seclusion of unpretending duty , he was gathering materials for works which are among the most valuable pictures of English life , as it existed in a generation ...
... pounds . During these twenty - five years , when Crabbe was living in the seclusion of unpretending duty , he was gathering materials for works which are among the most valuable pictures of English life , as it existed in a generation ...
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?