Once Upon a Time, כרך 2J. Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 39
עמוד 36
... Royal and Noble Authors , ' his Anecdotes of Painting , ' his Historic Doubts , ' & c . -are formed of materials not much more durable than his battlements , he was during a long life scattering about the world an abundance of other ...
... Royal and Noble Authors , ' his Anecdotes of Painting , ' his Historic Doubts , ' & c . -are formed of materials not much more durable than his battlements , he was during a long life scattering about the world an abundance of other ...
עמוד 52
... royal and noble gamblers , swindlers par excellence sometimes found their way . There was a Sir William Burdett , whose name had the honour of being inscribed in the betting - room at White's as the subject of a wager that he would be ...
... royal and noble gamblers , swindlers par excellence sometimes found their way . There was a Sir William Burdett , whose name had the honour of being inscribed in the betting - room at White's as the subject of a wager that he would be ...
עמוד 98
... Royal Lodge at Windsor ; and he would occa- sionally walk in for a gossip with the ancient lady . The Queen , too , would sometimes come . Fanny Burney had been in a flutter for many days about these visits , ready to fly off if any one ...
... Royal Lodge at Windsor ; and he would occa- sionally walk in for a gossip with the ancient lady . The Queen , too , would sometimes come . Fanny Burney had been in a flutter for many days about these visits , ready to fly off if any one ...
עמוד 99
... royal monologues about James's powder , and whooping - cough , and rheumatism , the happiness ( for who can doubt that it was happiness ) to hear the King begin to talk about ' Evelina ; ' and how she never told her father about the ...
... royal monologues about James's powder , and whooping - cough , and rheumatism , the happiness ( for who can doubt that it was happiness ) to hear the King begin to talk about ' Evelina ; ' and how she never told her father about the ...
עמוד 100
... royal curiosity is not quite satisfied . " Are you sure you never play ? never touch the keys at all ? " - " Never to acknow- ledge it , sir . " — " Oh that's it ; " and he imparts to the Queen , " She does play , but not to acknow ...
... royal curiosity is not quite satisfied . " Are you sure you never play ? never touch the keys at all ? " - " Never to acknow- ledge it , sir . " — " Oh that's it ; " and he imparts to the Queen , " She does play , but not to acknow ...
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist Windsor Woodcuts writing young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
עמוד 136 - 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 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, 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 85 - 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 79 - 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 14 - 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 54 - ... 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 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
עמוד 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...