The Rommany StoneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 330 páginas |
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... seemed to say to me ' Come ! ' Magic , or instinct , or sleep- walking , or whatever the feeling was , it took me straight off , a mile across Nine Ladies Moor , the whether I liked it or no ; and it brought me right up to the brink of ...
... seemed to say to me ' Come ! ' Magic , or instinct , or sleep- walking , or whatever the feeling was , it took me straight off , a mile across Nine Ladies Moor , the whether I liked it or no ; and it brought me right up to the brink of ...
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... seemed as if he didn't want to give the sign ; it appeared as someway he didn't relish his errand . ' The sign , my gorgio , —the sign , is it ? ' he says . ' Split me , but he wants the sign ! ' and the sleering fellow mocked me and ...
... seemed as if he didn't want to give the sign ; it appeared as someway he didn't relish his errand . ' The sign , my gorgio , —the sign , is it ? ' he says . ' Split me , but he wants the sign ! ' and the sleering fellow mocked me and ...
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... seemed grey and chill at Whinyat to Dahlia in her heyday . Yet there was red in the cheeks of the Whinyat lasses , and Saxon auburn in their hair , and blue in their eyes and ribbons and dotted ' kerchiefs ; and a pleasant place to be ...
... seemed grey and chill at Whinyat to Dahlia in her heyday . Yet there was red in the cheeks of the Whinyat lasses , and Saxon auburn in their hair , and blue in their eyes and ribbons and dotted ' kerchiefs ; and a pleasant place to be ...
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... seemed to him . " But he's a Count , tha ' knows , an ' his uncle's a Cardinal , an ' all that , " said Aunt Prue , as she passed the cheese . " And all the time the scheming , deceitful young madam sat by , as mum as a cat in DAHLIA ...
... seemed to him . " But he's a Count , tha ' knows , an ' his uncle's a Cardinal , an ' all that , " said Aunt Prue , as she passed the cheese . " And all the time the scheming , deceitful young madam sat by , as mum as a cat in DAHLIA ...
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... seemed to think as he was a kind o ' blessed martyr . We might have lawyered him , I suppose , for illegal performing of marriage , but it wasn't worth while ; and besides , it might have slurred the family name even worse . " Nay ...
... seemed to think as he was a kind o ' blessed martyr . We might have lawyered him , I suppose , for illegal performing of marriage , but it wasn't worth while ; and besides , it might have slurred the family name even worse . " Nay ...
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Página 187 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures, born to no inheritance but slavery: but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — — I took...
Página 261 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 63 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Página 269 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Página 269 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página 195 - Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 312 - Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Página 63 - outlandish people, calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft nor feat of merchandise, who have come into this realm and gone from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and used great...
Página 98 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Página 74 - Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.