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... asking for pen and ink , with great exactitude of purpose he enters me his name in the book - which ordinarily lies about in such places , to record the failures of the untimely or unfortunate visiter - and takes his leave with many ...
... asking for pen and ink , with great exactitude of purpose he enters me his name in the book - which ordinarily lies about in such places , to record the failures of the untimely or unfortunate visiter - and takes his leave with many ...
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... asked of me , what song the Sirens sang , or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women , I might , with Sir Thomas Browne , have hazarded a wide solution . " * My companion saw my embarrassment , and the almshouse ...
... asked of me , what song the Sirens sang , or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women , I might , with Sir Thomas Browne , have hazarded a wide solution . " * My companion saw my embarrassment , and the almshouse ...
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... asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for uncle John , and they looked up , and prayed me not to go on about their uncle , but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother . Then I told how for seven long ...
... asked if their little mourning which they had on was not for uncle John , and they looked up , and prayed me not to go on about their uncle , but to tell them some stories about their pretty dead mother . Then I told how for seven long ...
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... asked it pardon . I thought it looked upon me with a sense of injury . There is some- thing strange as well as sad in seeing actors- your pleasant fellows particularly - subjected to and suffering the common lot - their fortunes , their ...
... asked it pardon . I thought it looked upon me with a sense of injury . There is some- thing strange as well as sad in seeing actors- your pleasant fellows particularly - subjected to and suffering the common lot - their fortunes , their ...
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... asked him , whether he had any friends where he was going , he replied , " he had no friends . " These pleasant , and some mournful passages , with the first sight of the sea , co - operating with youth , and a sense of holydays , and ...
... asked him , whether he had any friends where he was going , he replied , " he had no friends . " These pleasant , and some mournful passages , with the first sight of the sea , co - operating with youth , and a sense of holydays , and ...
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Página 30 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 55 - Father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats." The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
Página 56 - He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling...
Página 37 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 55 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Página 37 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 110 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Página 55 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, (which I take to be the elder brother,) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Página 45 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would be foolish indeed.
Página 55 - 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 firebrand.