Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 30
עמוד 22
... scene , Charing Cross . It is a bonfire night . The fagot blazes in the centre of the narrow street ; the dozen farthing candles illuminate the barber's window ; the light gleams from the watchman's lanthorn , as he leads home the ...
... scene , Charing Cross . It is a bonfire night . The fagot blazes in the centre of the narrow street ; the dozen farthing candles illuminate the barber's window ; the light gleams from the watchman's lanthorn , as he leads home the ...
עמוד 40
... scenes of their own proper great- ness . Walpole , writing from Newmarket in 1743 , says , " How dismal , how solitary , how scrub does this town look ; and yet it has actually a street of houses better than Parma or Modena ! Nay , the ...
... scenes of their own proper great- ness . Walpole , writing from Newmarket in 1743 , says , " How dismal , how solitary , how scrub does this town look ; and yet it has actually a street of houses better than Parma or Modena ! Nay , the ...
עמוד 41
... scenes , and dresses . The directors have already laid out great sums . They talk of a mob to silence the operas , as they did the French players ; but it will be more difficult , for here half the young noblemen in town are engaged ...
... scenes , and dresses . The directors have already laid out great sums . They talk of a mob to silence the operas , as they did the French players ; but it will be more difficult , for here half the young noblemen in town are engaged ...
עמוד 97
... scene in Mr. Thrale's villa at Streatham . The house , as usual , is full of company . Mr. Boswell , who has recently arrived in London , comes for a morning visit ; and what was then called a " collation " is ordered . The sprightly ...
... scene in Mr. Thrale's villa at Streatham . The house , as usual , is full of company . Mr. Boswell , who has recently arrived in London , comes for a morning visit ; and what was then called a " collation " is ordered . The sprightly ...
עמוד 105
... scene . About five o'clock , carriage after carriage began to roll up the Castle hill . That hill was then a sort of street , with house after house , close up to the ugly barrack , called the Lodge , which Sir William Chambers had ...
... scene . About five o'clock , carriage after carriage began to roll up the Castle hill . That hill was then a sort of street , with house after house , close up to the ugly barrack , called the Lodge , which Sir William Chambers had ...
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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?