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... questions , and bagatelles , and calling attention to the gam- bols of her darling greyhound Cupidon , and tapping Little Grand with her fan , till , I believe , he neither knew how the game went , nor what money he lost ; and I ...
... questions , and bagatelles , and calling attention to the gam- bols of her darling greyhound Cupidon , and tapping Little Grand with her fan , till , I believe , he neither knew how the game went , nor what money he lost ; and I ...
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... question , but in the suppression of any material circumstances affecting the life proposed . Depending as it does on the principle of averages , life assurance has been truly enough described as the combination of small sums ...
... question , but in the suppression of any material circumstances affecting the life proposed . Depending as it does on the principle of averages , life assurance has been truly enough described as the combination of small sums ...
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... offer his services in pointing out the stately flower in question ; but Mrs. Montresor , pretending not to observe him , tapped Fanshawe on the shoulder with her fan , and admonished him and Geraldine 36 The Belles of the Island .
... offer his services in pointing out the stately flower in question ; but Mrs. Montresor , pretending not to observe him , tapped Fanshawe on the shoulder with her fan , and admonished him and Geraldine 36 The Belles of the Island .
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... question " tired of everything - bored by everything . What is life ? Ah ! " And he fetched a deep sigh . " Why , you are quite a misanthrope , " said Geraldine , who could scarcely refrain from laughing , as she glanced at the ...
... question " tired of everything - bored by everything . What is life ? Ah ! " And he fetched a deep sigh . " Why , you are quite a misanthrope , " said Geraldine , who could scarcely refrain from laughing , as she glanced at the ...
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... questions which have been already often investigated , or to occupy time with details regarding objects fre- quently mentioned by previous travellers , who give full descriptions of everything worth examination , both in the city and ...
... questions which have been already often investigated , or to occupy time with details regarding objects fre- quently mentioned by previous travellers , who give full descriptions of everything worth examination , both in the city and ...
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Página 72 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 39 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Página 151 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Página 155 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme...
Página 74 - Ye woodlands all , awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds ! sweet Philomela , charm The listening shades, and teach the night his praise.
Página 155 - Glides through the pathways ; she knows all their notes, That gentle Maid ! and oft, a moment's space, What time the moon was lost behind a cloud, Hath heard a pause of silence...
Página 155 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter Ibrth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 68 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 155 - Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird? Oh! idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!
Página 78 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...