The night watch; or, Tales of the sea, Volumen1Henry Colburn, 1828 |
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... parties were large and frequent , but really nothing extravagant . Their establish- ment , to be sure , was on a good scale , but how could a respectable establishment dissipate the immense fortune his father left him ? He was not known ...
... parties were large and frequent , but really nothing extravagant . Their establish- ment , to be sure , was on a good scale , but how could a respectable establishment dissipate the immense fortune his father left him ? He was not known ...
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... party - is hot and heavy , dull and full as a Methodist - meeting ; nobody here , let's try another : " and with such conversations did his very faithful soi - disant friends blend their transient pity at the mention of his misfortunes ...
... party - is hot and heavy , dull and full as a Methodist - meeting ; nobody here , let's try another : " and with such conversations did his very faithful soi - disant friends blend their transient pity at the mention of his misfortunes ...
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... party and Parliament - time should call her to the gay capital , and those scenes which long habit had endeared to her . She usually flew south before the first north- ern gale that stripped the trees of their foliage , as she had no ...
... party and Parliament - time should call her to the gay capital , and those scenes which long habit had endeared to her . She usually flew south before the first north- ern gale that stripped the trees of their foliage , as she had no ...
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... parties . Notwithstanding Lady Lovel's prejudices against dissenters , her agent , factor , or facto- tum , was no other than Obadiah Sims , a man of substance , and of serpentine and interrogatory conversation . A goodly personage of ...
... parties . Notwithstanding Lady Lovel's prejudices against dissenters , her agent , factor , or facto- tum , was no other than Obadiah Sims , a man of substance , and of serpentine and interrogatory conversation . A goodly personage of ...
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... party was as courteous , friendly , and agreeable , as the every things and nothings of salutation could be supposed to make it and when they were seated , Lady Lovel had not finished telling Mr. Dunstan- ville that it was an age since ...
... party was as courteous , friendly , and agreeable , as the every things and nothings of salutation could be supposed to make it and when they were seated , Lady Lovel had not finished telling Mr. Dunstan- ville that it was an age since ...
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Página 125 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere...
Página 109 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Página 103 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Página 103 - 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 xxxv - Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart, untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; Still to my Brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 103 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Página 42 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Página 12 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Página xv - As the Chameleon, who is known To have no colors of his own : But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue...
Página 139 - And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they...