The Sale-room, Tema 11817 |
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... appearance before the public is like the entrance of a bashful person into a ceremonious company ; and in both cases the French proverb applies , Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute . And how often have we seen such a person , qua ...
... appearance before the public is like the entrance of a bashful person into a ceremonious company ; and in both cases the French proverb applies , Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute . And how often have we seen such a person , qua ...
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... appearing thus to be engaged in a combination against Peter , he resolved , nevertheless , not to be awanting to himself , but , relying on his own exertions , determined to break the measures instituted against him by his secret and ...
... appearing thus to be engaged in a combination against Peter , he resolved , nevertheless , not to be awanting to himself , but , relying on his own exertions , determined to break the measures instituted against him by his secret and ...
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... appeared to me too unsubstan- tial an aliment for a famished stomach , so I made up my mind to take the two first articles . They served up to me a morsel of cold roast beef , which might weigh perhaps , from eight to ten pounds ...
... appeared to me too unsubstan- tial an aliment for a famished stomach , so I made up my mind to take the two first articles . They served up to me a morsel of cold roast beef , which might weigh perhaps , from eight to ten pounds ...
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... appeared to us the most moderate of all caricatures . Cervantes himself , before he had finished writing it , seems to have be- come almost as mad as his hero . Dr Spurz- heim , we have no doubt , is a believer in his own doctrines ...
... appeared to us the most moderate of all caricatures . Cervantes himself , before he had finished writing it , seems to have be- come almost as mad as his hero . Dr Spurz- heim , we have no doubt , is a believer in his own doctrines ...
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... appeared , was the wonderful affection he soon began to entertain for this author , entirely giving up all other reading , and sitting in his back- shop studying coats of arms and crests , when he should have been attending to customers ...
... appeared , was the wonderful affection he soon began to entertain for this author , entirely giving up all other reading , and sitting in his back- shop studying coats of arms and crests , when he should have been attending to customers ...
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Página 213 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Página 46 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 30 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 32 - And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol, or a harp ; Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
Página 174 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 175 - Fly to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice what heart can doubt Of tents with love, or thrones without ? Our rocks are rough, but smiling there Th' acacia waves her yellow hair, Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less For flowering in a wilderness.
Página 33 - In chimney corner seek domestic joys — I love a prince will bid the bottle pass, Exchanging with his subjects glance and glass ; In fitting time, can, gayest of the gay, Keep up the jest, and mingle in the lay — Such Monarchs best our free-born humours suit, But Despots must be stately, stern, and mute.
Página 213 - He, who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him...
Página 175 - Oh ! there are looks and tones that dart An instant sunshine through the heart, — As if the soul that minute caught Some treasure it through life had sought...