The Pic-nic Papers, Volumen 1Charles Dickens Ward and Lock, 1841 - 472 páginas |
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... followed him out ; having the gratifi- cation to perceive , as he looked back , that they were all hanging on by the arms and legs of Galileo Isaac Newton Flamstead , to prevent him from following the noble stranger , and tearing him to ...
... followed him out ; having the gratifi- cation to perceive , as he looked back , that they were all hanging on by the arms and legs of Galileo Isaac Newton Flamstead , to prevent him from following the noble stranger , and tearing him to ...
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... followed the banner of their youthful sovereign to the fair fields of France . It was in vain that his father and his master represented to Miles the folly of forsaking a craft in which he had acquired some skill , in the com- mencement ...
... followed the banner of their youthful sovereign to the fair fields of France . It was in vain that his father and his master represented to Miles the folly of forsaking a craft in which he had acquired some skill , in the com- mencement ...
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... followed the light skipping steps of his vivacious prisoner into the sacred parlour of the superior of St. Clotilde , without appearing in the slightest degree im- pressed with the privilege of gaining admittance to a place in general ...
... followed the light skipping steps of his vivacious prisoner into the sacred parlour of the superior of St. Clotilde , without appearing in the slightest degree im- pressed with the privilege of gaining admittance to a place in general ...
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... not so , such examples as Mr. Jacob Tonson's would be at all generally followed . Reasons for imagining the direct reverse exist in abundance . But so 84 JOHN DRYDEN AND JACOB TONSON . many absurd things JACOB TONSON . 83.
... not so , such examples as Mr. Jacob Tonson's would be at all generally followed . Reasons for imagining the direct reverse exist in abundance . But so 84 JOHN DRYDEN AND JACOB TONSON . many absurd things JACOB TONSON . 83.
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... follow the race of devastation - a great space one moment in darkness , in the next glaring with flame ; and in a few minutes after , nothing but a mass of burning brands could be distinguished . The roofs seemed to spring from the ...
... follow the race of devastation - a great space one moment in darkness , in the next glaring with flame ; and in a few minutes after , nothing but a mass of burning brands could be distinguished . The roofs seemed to spring from the ...
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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.