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... with her . That is the true practical view to take that works best in the long run , for all your personal and intel- lectual charms fade and decay . For , Johnny , my boy , let me tell you there is a COUNTRY QUARTERS . 35.
... with her . That is the true practical view to take that works best in the long run , for all your personal and intel- lectual charms fade and decay . For , Johnny , my boy , let me tell you there is a COUNTRY QUARTERS . 35.
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Charles Henry Knox. my boy , let me tell you there is a point in the life of an intellectual and feeling woman that is not dreamed of in your philosophy , and that is when she is forty- five , and d - d positive , and takes snuff ...
Charles Henry Knox. my boy , let me tell you there is a point in the life of an intellectual and feeling woman that is not dreamed of in your philosophy , and that is when she is forty- five , and d - d positive , and takes snuff ...
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... telling him she know his sister . would give the world to " To think of her repeat- ing that that I told her in the strictest confidence , after her saying- " What did she say ? " Johnny stopped dead short . " " asked I , for However ...
... telling him she know his sister . would give the world to " To think of her repeat- ing that that I told her in the strictest confidence , after her saying- " What did she say ? " Johnny stopped dead short . " " asked I , for However ...
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Charles Henry Knox. " Well , that was what I thought , to tell you the truth , " replied Johnny , innocently , thereby convincing me that I was correct in setting down the remark as a piracy , and from a somewhat discreditable source ...
Charles Henry Knox. " Well , that was what I thought , to tell you the truth , " replied Johnny , innocently , thereby convincing me that I was correct in setting down the remark as a piracy , and from a somewhat discreditable source ...
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... tell what sort of mothers such hounds as those must have had ; and , you may rely upon it , vulgar mothers make vulgar daughters . " " Precisely so , " said Johnny , with the air of a Lord Chief Justice , though he knew nothing whatever ...
... tell what sort of mothers such hounds as those must have had ; and , you may rely upon it , vulgar mothers make vulgar daughters . " " Precisely so , " said Johnny , with the air of a Lord Chief Justice , though he knew nothing whatever ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
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...