London Bicycle Club Gazette, 5. köide1882 |
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Page 155 - Striking and raging As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among; Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and...
Page 120 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 194 - Now you're married, you must obey, You must be true to all you say, You must be kind, you must be good, And keep your wife in kindling wood.
Page 120 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 96 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 170 - The passenger's footway lies right through the first-floor fronts of the houses — which are cleared away altogether, and above the shop, of ordinary normal position, by the road-side ; and thus, the back drawing-rooms, or whatever else they may be, are turned into more shops ; and great is the puzzle of the stranger as to whether the roadway is down in the cellar, or he is...
Page 141 - I want to know how it happens that what is sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander...
Page 129 - Watson's death one of his private pupils was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
Page 259 - Gentlemen, I thank you very much for the kind manner in which you have received my paper, and for the attention with which you have listened to it.
Page 170 - row' — as it is termed — is like the Quadrant, with the road excavated a floor lower, and shops made under the pavement ; and then it reminds him of a Thames-side tavern, with all the shutter wainscots, that divide the large convivial room into so many little philandering ones, drawn away, and the windows knocked out. And, finally...