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... FENWICK is just the person to write such a book . He is one of the very best dressed men I ever saw ; -yet , he says , he is never more than ten minutes at his toilet , -shaving included ! WALSINGHAM . Wonderful ! " He is simply the ...
... FENWICK is just the person to write such a book . He is one of the very best dressed men I ever saw ; -yet , he says , he is never more than ten minutes at his toilet , -shaving included ! WALSINGHAM . Wonderful ! " He is simply the ...
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... FENWICK must be liked , wherever he goes . Well - bred , - gentle - mannered , —of a liberal and candid spirit- and ... FENWICKS would come over every year . The English would then , ( I am sure , ) become as popular in this country , as ...
... FENWICK must be liked , wherever he goes . Well - bred , - gentle - mannered , —of a liberal and candid spirit- and ... FENWICKS would come over every year . The English would then , ( I am sure , ) become as popular in this country , as ...
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... FENWICK said , last evening- " John Bull would be inclined to think , and to say so , too , -if he saw in what an odious light he was shown up , by a portion of the American press . Why , d - n it ! Brother Jonathan is either a fellow ...
... FENWICK said , last evening- " John Bull would be inclined to think , and to say so , too , -if he saw in what an odious light he was shown up , by a portion of the American press . Why , d - n it ! Brother Jonathan is either a fellow ...
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... its misery . The poor animals were actually buried alive . WALSINGHAM . Mercy ! FENWICK should inform him that such practices are not allowable in this country . By the by , he came over in the same ship 62 SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
... its misery . The poor animals were actually buried alive . WALSINGHAM . Mercy ! FENWICK should inform him that such practices are not allowable in this country . By the by , he came over in the same ship 62 SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
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... FENWICK met with him first , at Florence . They , afterwards , travelled together over a great part of the continent , -and , FENWICK was so amused with the Count , ( as he calls him , ) that he induced the latter to accompany him to ...
... FENWICK met with him first , at Florence . They , afterwards , travelled together over a great part of the continent , -and , FENWICK was so amused with the Count , ( as he calls him , ) that he induced the latter to accompany him to ...
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Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Sayings and Doings in America [Signed Costard Sly] Costard Sly (Pseud ) Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 195 - Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured; bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth...
Página 237 - I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Página 195 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 225 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 240 - ... that justice must not be wholly superseded even by benignant mercy? Is not our new President right in saying that, in the present position of this nation, indulgence to leading traitors may be cruelty to the state? For one, sir, I must confess a mortal repugnance to bloody revenge, and I believe the worst use you can make of a man is to hang him.
Página 264 - BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will. And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.
Página 190 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Página 190 - ... happy issue. From what has been said, I think I may lay it down as a maxim, that every man of good common sense may, if he pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich. The reason why we sometimes see...
Página 59 - The strongest bond of union amongItalians is only a coincidence of hatred. Never were the Tuscans so unanimous as in hating the other states of Italy ; the Senesi agreed best in hating all the other Tuscans ; the citizens of Siena, in hating the rest of the Senesi ; and in the city itself the same amiable passion was subdivided among the different wards.
Página 204 - Wilkie's memory could scarcely furnish him with prettier scenes than the following sketches. The first is an invitation sent across the Atlantic to his American relative. ' You are now almost a stranger in your native land. Twenty-three years form a large portion of life ; and so long you have been absent from Britain, and suffering the scorching beams and the numbing colds of the atmosphere of Virginia. Do not you think you should relish a sight of your old friends, and of the scenes of your infancy?...