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... you were eminently suc- cessful on the Stock Exchange . I hope , however , that the smash is not very serious ; but in your new character I wish to recom- VOL . I. B mend to your patronage a girl that has done me CONFESSIONS ...
... you were eminently suc- cessful on the Stock Exchange . I hope , however , that the smash is not very serious ; but in your new character I wish to recom- VOL . I. B mend to your patronage a girl that has done me CONFESSIONS ...
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... girl , as lady - like as could be hoped for here , and does not expect one to marry her . If you lend her that grey mare of yours , and put your smartest boy on the cab horse , you will win her heart slick away . " The garrison hacks ...
... girl , as lady - like as could be hoped for here , and does not expect one to marry her . If you lend her that grey mare of yours , and put your smartest boy on the cab horse , you will win her heart slick away . " The garrison hacks ...
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... girl , daughter of an old fellow ( pork and provision trade ) , who is as rich as a Jew , and gives dinners twice a - week , devilish near caught Willy Jackson . I think she would have booked him dearly beloved if it had not been for a ...
... girl , daughter of an old fellow ( pork and provision trade ) , who is as rich as a Jew , and gives dinners twice a - week , devilish near caught Willy Jackson . I think she would have booked him dearly beloved if it had not been for a ...
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... girl of the name of Hooper ; her governor gives pretty good dinners , and the girl herself is amus- ing for a time , but she lies like a trooper . Ellen's father is a clergyman , so I conclude you will speedily get to windward of him ...
... girl of the name of Hooper ; her governor gives pretty good dinners , and the girl herself is amus- ing for a time , but she lies like a trooper . Ellen's father is a clergyman , so I conclude you will speedily get to windward of him ...
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... girl herself . She confesses that church would bore her to death , if it were not for looking out for new bonnets . She is rather out of spirits , poor thing , as might be ex- pected , but I trust you will speedily console her . I have ...
... girl herself . She confesses that church would bore her to death , if it were not for looking out for new bonnets . She is rather out of spirits , poor thing , as might be ex- pected , but I trust you will speedily console her . I have ...
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Página 259 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Página 248 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 126 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Página 197 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Página 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Página 109 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Página 11 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Página 20 - Act, other than the Person thereunto authorized by Law, shall assume or use the Name, Style, or Title of Archbishop of any Province, Bishop of any Bishoprick, or Dean of any Deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
Página 256 - They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Página 183 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...