Temple Bar, Volumen 54George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1878 |
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... wonder who Courvoisier is ! " " You have managed to exist very comfortably for three or four years without knowing . " " There is something behind all his secrecy about himself . " " Fräulein Sartorius says so , I suppose , " I remarked ...
... wonder who Courvoisier is ! " " You have managed to exist very comfortably for three or four years without knowing . " " There is something behind all his secrecy about himself . " " Fräulein Sartorius says so , I suppose , " I remarked ...
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... wonder if there is any way in which a man could kill all trace of his old self ; a man who has every desire to lead henceforth a new life , and be at peace and charity with all men . I suppose not - no . I suppose the brand has to be ...
... wonder if there is any way in which a man could kill all trace of his old self ; a man who has every desire to lead henceforth a new life , and be at peace and charity with all men . I suppose not - no . I suppose the brand has to be ...
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... wonder that any one could invent a hell . My only wonder is why they should have resorted to fire and brimstone to enhance its terrors when they had the earth full of misery to choose from . " " You think this world a hell , Eugen ...
... wonder that any one could invent a hell . My only wonder is why they should have resorted to fire and brimstone to enhance its terrors when they had the earth full of misery to choose from . " " You think this world a hell , Eugen ...
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... wonder if we shall ever meet again ? Not likely , when you are married to some respectable , conventional man , who will shield you from contamination with such as I. I must not write more or I shall write nonsense . Good - bye , good ...
... wonder if we shall ever meet again ? Not likely , when you are married to some respectable , conventional man , who will shield you from contamination with such as I. I must not write more or I shall write nonsense . Good - bye , good ...
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... wonder much at . The best description I can give of Nicosia is that , like nearly every Turkish town I have visited , the hand of Time seems to have stood still for three hundred years . I can imagine how that in 1575 the place ...
... wonder much at . The best description I can give of Nicosia is that , like nearly every Turkish town I have visited , the hand of Time seems to have stood still for three hundred years . I can imagine how that in 1575 the place ...
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Página 174 - His wit all see-saw, between that and this, } Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, } And he himself one vile antithesis. } Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 495 - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Página 173 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
Página 173 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels...
Página 210 - Nor built on rapine, servitude, and woe, And in their turn some petty tyrant's prey ; But, bound by social Freedom, firm they rise; Such as, of late, an Oglethorpe has form'd, And, crowding round, the charm'd Savannah sees.
Página 185 - At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a little rat of a girl, about the bigness of a good large toothpick case.' The anger of the King and Queen, when the unworthy conduct of their son was brought before them, was deep in the extreme. They declared that so open and gratuitous an insult could not be passed over, and that Fritz should feel their heaviest displeasure.
Página 186 - In the mean time it is my pleasure that you leave St. James's with all your family, when it can be done without prejudice or inconvenience to the Princess. " I shall for the present leave to the Princess the care of my grand-daughter, until a proper time calls upon me to consider of her education.
Página 182 - The Prince's character at his first coming over,' says Hervey in his most piquant vein, ' though little more respectable, seemed much more amiable than, upon his opening himself further and being better known, it turned out to be ; for, though there appeared nothing in him to be admired, yet there seemed nothing in him to be hated — neither anything great nor anything vicious. His behaviour was something that gained one's good wishes though it gave one no esteem for him; for his best qualities,...
Página 177 - She was at least seven or eight hours te'te-a-tete with the King every day, during which time she was generally saying what she did not think, assenting to what she did not believe, and praising what she did not approve...
Página 197 - What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds ? or to be smothered With cassia? or to be shot to death with pearls ? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits...