The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 páginas |
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Página 144
... Fowler , one of the two whom Fors- ter had left drinking at the Hunting Horn , and who now , after a long and terrified search , stood scrutini- zing his companion's features by the help of a lantern . The wagon had arrived safe ...
... Fowler , one of the two whom Fors- ter had left drinking at the Hunting Horn , and who now , after a long and terrified search , stood scrutini- zing his companion's features by the help of a lantern . The wagon had arrived safe ...
Página 146
... Fowler ! " Dick slowly lifted himself up , and clasped his com- panion's hand , whispering faintly , " Bill Fowler , let us leave this lonely place - help me to the high road— then to some house or other , and I will tell thee all ! It ...
... Fowler ! " Dick slowly lifted himself up , and clasped his com- panion's hand , whispering faintly , " Bill Fowler , let us leave this lonely place - help me to the high road— then to some house or other , and I will tell thee all ! It ...
Página 148
... Fowler , amused by his naïveté and eagerness . Fowler hung down his head and blushed . 66 Why , please your worship , as for the matter of honesty , I am as honest ( as one might rever- ently say ) as your worship yourself ; but I own ...
... Fowler , amused by his naïveté and eagerness . Fowler hung down his head and blushed . 66 Why , please your worship , as for the matter of honesty , I am as honest ( as one might rever- ently say ) as your worship yourself ; but I own ...
Página 150
... Fowler half a crown , to enable him to get a plain jug " of good ale . And so the affair ended , as far as the wagoner was concerned . The result of the appli- cation to the secretary of state , was an order to adver- tise the affair ...
... Fowler half a crown , to enable him to get a plain jug " of good ale . And so the affair ended , as far as the wagoner was concerned . The result of the appli- cation to the secretary of state , was an order to adver- tise the affair ...
Página 152
... Fowler , he was pleased to say , " There were at least three shots fired at me " " Three ! You lie ! " said a man who had been lis- tening to him . The eyes of all present were in an instant fixed on the uncourteous interrupter . There ...
... Fowler , he was pleased to say , " There were at least three shots fired at me " " Three ! You lie ! " said a man who had been lis- tening to him . The eyes of all present were in an instant fixed on the uncourteous interrupter . There ...
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Página 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Página 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Página 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Página 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.