The Pic-nic Papers, Volumen 1Charles Dickens Ward and Lock, 1841 - 472 páginas |
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... daughter ! Won't you , Mooney ? Not if I make her ? Won't you ? Won't you ! ? ' “ No , ' says Mooney , ' I won't . And if any- body asks me any more , I'll run away , and never come back again . ' " Mr. Grig , ' says the old gentleman ...
... daughter ! Won't you , Mooney ? Not if I make her ? Won't you ? Won't you ! ? ' “ No , ' says Mooney , ' I won't . And if any- body asks me any more , I'll run away , and never come back again . ' " Mr. Grig , ' says the old gentleman ...
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... daughter to marry anybody she likes ; and they are all well pleased ; and the Gifted as well as any of them . To make short of a long story , " In the middle of this little family party , gen- tlemen , sits Tom all the while , as ...
... daughter to marry anybody she likes ; and they are all well pleased ; and the Gifted as well as any of them . To make short of a long story , " In the middle of this little family party , gen- tlemen , sits Tom all the while , as ...
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... daughter of a French count , whom he had taken prisoner at Agincourt , and preserved from the promiscuous slaughter that sullied the laurels won by England on that memorable day . It was , however , rather to the avarice than the ...
... daughter of a French count , whom he had taken prisoner at Agincourt , and preserved from the promiscuous slaughter that sullied the laurels won by England on that memorable day . It was , however , rather to the avarice than the ...
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... your engagement ? " asked the knight . " Sir knight , ” replied the Count d'Esparre , “ I have a fair daughter in a convent not many miles from this spot , and she shall be my surety . " " Is she a nun ? " " She is 40 THE KNIGHT BANNERET .
... your engagement ? " asked the knight . " Sir knight , ” replied the Count d'Esparre , “ I have a fair daughter in a convent not many miles from this spot , and she shall be my surety . " " Is she a nun ? " " She is 40 THE KNIGHT BANNERET .
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... daughter of yours , and if she is as worthy of my esteem as you describe her , I will accept her at your hands in lieu of the ten thousand crowns which should have been the ransom of your paltry life . " " Good Sir Knight , then you ...
... daughter of yours , and if she is as worthy of my esteem as you describe her , I will accept her at your hands in lieu of the ten thousand crowns which should have been the ransom of your paltry life . " " Good Sir Knight , then you ...
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Adèle Al Mansur amid appeared arms ash tree Aunt Honour banneret beauty Bosphorus bull caique Castlemain Circassian companion Congreve Constantinople Count d'Esparre cries daughter death Doctor Johnson door Dryden Emilia English knight exclaimed eyes face father fearful feelings Fidge fire flames Garscube gazed giaour Golden Horn gondolier Gourock Grey Grig hand head heard heart horse hour instant Jacob Jacob Tonson John Dryden Killmacreenan kind lamplighter leave Leonardo light live looked Major Ap Owen matter Mauberme maun mind Miquelet mistress Montague morning mother mountains Mustapha never night noble occasion old gentleman passed replied round says the old scarcely scene sea of Marmora seemed seraglio side sight Sir Miles Armourer soon sooner spirit spot stranger tell thing thou thought thousand tion Tom's Tonson took Turkish turned Venice voice whispered wife words young lady youth
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Página 217 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Página 60 - If they will consider me as a man who has done my best to improve the language, and especially the poetry, and will be content with my acquiescence under the present government, and forbearing satire on it, that I can promise, because I can perform it : but I can neither take the oaths, nor forsake my religion; because I know not what church to go to, if I...
Página 61 - God be pleased to open your eyes, as he has opened mine ! Truth is but one, and they who have once heard of it, can plead no excuse if they do not embrace it. But these are things too serious for a trifling letter...
Página 64 - Upon trial, I find all of your trade are sharpers, and you not more than others ; therefore, I have not wholly left you.
Página 72 - For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am I grown old, in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application, which have made me a poet, might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself.
Página 71 - If love be folly, the severe divine Has felt that folly, though he censures mine ; Pollutes the pleasures of a chaste embrace, Acts what I write, and propagates in grace, With riotous excess, a priestly race. Suppose him free, and that I forge...
Página 69 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Página 91 - ... her first: — That touch, at last, through every fibre slid ; And Paulo turned, scarce knowing what he did, Only he felt he could no more dissemble, And kissed her, mouth to mouth, all in a tremble. Sad were those hearts, and sweet was that long kiss : Sacred be love from sight, whate'er it is. The world was all forgot, the struggle o'er, Desperate the joy. — That day they read no more.
Página 71 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Página 64 - With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air.