The Game of LifeE.C. Mielke, 1833 - 210 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adventurer agent alarm appearance backgammon beautiful bosom Burnet cheek circumstances cold cottage counting-house cried crowd Curate dark daugh dear sir door dreams ears exclaimed eyes face feelings fellow Fisher folly gazing gentleman hand happy head heard heart Helen Helen Howard honour hope human imagination innocent eyes inquired knew lady Lambton LEITCH RITCHIE length Lincoln's Inn Fields lips live Llanwellyn London London Bridge look manner mean member of parliament mind Miss Howard mistress morning mother nature neighbour never night once passed pawnbroker poor postchaise recollection replied round scene seemed shilling silence Simpkin situation smile sophism soul spirit stept stood strange street suddenly sure thing thought Three Puncheons tion tobacco smoke trembling turned Vesper voice walked watchmen wife Wigwam Wilkins William Clive window woman word young youth
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 151 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
עמוד 210 - Not always fall of leaf, nor ever spring, No endless night, yet not eternal day; The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay: Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
עמוד 50 - BID me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be ; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee.
עמוד 145 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her. Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
עמוד 7 - Is it, your art can only work on those That deal with dangers, dignities, and clothes ? With love, or new opinions ? You all lie ! A fish-wife hath a fate, and so have I ; But far above your finding ! He that gives, Out of his providence, to all that lives, And no man knows his treasure, no, not you ; He that made .(Egypt blind, from whence you grew Scabby and lousy, that the world might see Your calculations are as blind as ye ; He that made all the stars you daily...
עמוד 201 - I have some one to talk with and help me on concerning the subject in which we are both interested. I do not know whether this letter will even reach you. Will you at least drop me a postal card when you receive it, for if I do not hear from you in a day or two, I am going to resort to further means of hunting you up. I should also like to know how you decide.
עמוד 31 - When Mr. Vesper found himself in the street, he paused for an instant to recollect whether he ought to turn to the right or to the left in order to...
עמוד 7 - How far, and when, and why the wind doth blow; Know all the charges of the dreadful thunder, And when it will shoot over, or fall under ; Tell me, by all your art I conjure ye, Yes, and by truth, what shall, become of me ? Find out my star, if each one as you say, Have his peculiar angel, and his way...
עמוד 146 - Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and so forth : It had been 'prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th...
עמוד 176 - Good bye, good bye !" and he retired with his head turned over his shoulder, and his eyes fixed upon Helen's portrait.