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... pleasure , but an honour , to have offered me such an opportunity of placing , in a convenient form , at the disposal of the promoters of Penny Readings some of the rarest literary treasures of the age . As the suggestion of Messrs ...
... pleasure , but an honour , to have offered me such an opportunity of placing , in a convenient form , at the disposal of the promoters of Penny Readings some of the rarest literary treasures of the age . As the suggestion of Messrs ...
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... pleasure , he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it , and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion , when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters , armed with retributory cudgel ...
... pleasure , he fell to tearing up whole handfuls of the scorched skin with the flesh next it , and was cramming it down his throat in his beastly fashion , when his sire entered amid the smoking rafters , armed with retributory cudgel ...
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... - roasted , crackling , as it is well called the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy , brittle resistance - with the adhesive 32 A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG .
... - roasted , crackling , as it is well called the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy , brittle resistance - with the adhesive 32 A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG .
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... pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish - but she stoppeth at the palate — she meddleth not with the appe- tite - and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently for a mutton - chop . Pig - let me ...
... pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish - but she stoppeth at the palate — she meddleth not with the appe- tite - and the coarsest hunger might barter her consistently for a mutton - chop . Pig - let me ...
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... pleasures , his relishes , and proper satisfac- tions , as in mine own . " Presents , " I often say , endear Absents . " Hares , pheasants , partridges , snipes , barn - door chickens ( those 66 tame villatic fowl " ) , capons , plovers ...
... pleasures , his relishes , and proper satisfac- tions , as in mine own . " Presents , " I often say , endear Absents . " Hares , pheasants , partridges , snipes , barn - door chickens ( those 66 tame villatic fowl " ) , capons , plovers ...
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Página 2 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Página 82 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long. She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love, and virgin shame; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name.
Página 5 - Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Página 2 - Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; 'Speed!' echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 52 - I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster'd round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair; Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be ? " " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And wondering look'd at me.
Página 23 - What could it proceed from? Not from the burnt cottage: he had smelt that smell before; indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-brand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.
Página 95 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 94 - Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 22 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation,- as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches, and the labor of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Página 90 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there.