All the Year Round, 5. köideCharles Dickens, 1861 |
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... half asleep , who stept About the turret where the old Duke slept . The young Duke , whom a waking thought , not new , Had held from sleeping , the last night or two , Consider'd he should sleep the better there , Provided that the old ...
... half asleep , who stept About the turret where the old Duke slept . The young Duke , whom a waking thought , not new , Had held from sleeping , the last night or two , Consider'd he should sleep the better there , Provided that the old ...
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... half a world goes mad , makes sober men In after years , who comfortably sit In easy chairs to weigh and ponder it , Revise the various theories of mankind , Puzzling both others and themselves , to find New reasons for unreasonable old ...
... half a world goes mad , makes sober men In after years , who comfortably sit In easy chairs to weigh and ponder it , Revise the various theories of mankind , Puzzling both others and themselves , to find New reasons for unreasonable old ...
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... half of adjacent places , more especially in Stone and traders , two million engaged in agriculture , a Nantwich . In Norwich , again , one man in ten million and a half occupied in manufactures , a and one woman in fourteen , make ...
... half of adjacent places , more especially in Stone and traders , two million engaged in agriculture , a Nantwich . In Norwich , again , one man in ten million and a half occupied in manufactures , a and one woman in fourteen , make ...
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... half - Highland , half - negro extraction - Mr . Alexander ( commonly called " Sawney " ) Bean - cut a very distinguished figure . Time , which , according to the poet , eats all sorts of things ( edax rerum ) , has , it must be owned ...
... half - Highland , half - negro extraction - Mr . Alexander ( commonly called " Sawney " ) Bean - cut a very distinguished figure . Time , which , according to the poet , eats all sorts of things ( edax rerum ) , has , it must be owned ...
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... half of the time . Here was the pri- soner still comfortably in bed . There were but two courses to pursue . Reprieve , or execution . Under the pressure of circumstances , the excel- lent governor resolved to strain a point , and dis ...
... half of the time . Here was the pri- soner still comfortably in bed . There were but two courses to pursue . Reprieve , or execution . Under the pressure of circumstances , the excel- lent governor resolved to strain a point , and dis ...
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Page 65 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 203 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 202 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
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Page 415 - No'w from all Parts the swelling Kennels flow, And bear their Trophies with them as they go: Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell What Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell.
Page 201 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 202 - And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother ? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand : so he smote. him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again ; and he died.
Page 202 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 148 - I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be ! ' When one of 'em says to another, ' He was a convict a few years ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say ? I says to myself, ' If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land ; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?
Page 360 - ... but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and...