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... STOE Let me ST FA VAS TE THE KINI STU 1100101 INTA UNENT #L V lauet 15 TIROS TOLA HIP - BPPEAL PCL IT BACK RADET bravery vici model ar tenger " amat throughout the coming fa Sr - sue 2 Is ― respected Manes ! Withal he was a shy man.
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... Coming back to our distinguished actor , and his last appearance on the histrionic boards , with a bright little play , we now , in like fashion , step before the footlights , not " on the boards " but between the modest brown boards of ...
... Coming back to our distinguished actor , and his last appearance on the histrionic boards , with a bright little play , we now , in like fashion , step before the footlights , not " on the boards " but between the modest brown boards of ...
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... coming to dine with him , and he bade that official make due preparation . " May I ask , " said the butler deferentially , " whether they are ' Igh , or Low Church ? What on earth makes you put such a question ? " replied the master ...
... coming to dine with him , and he bade that official make due preparation . " May I ask , " said the butler deferentially , " whether they are ' Igh , or Low Church ? What on earth makes you put such a question ? " replied the master ...
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... Coming to modern times , the tragedian Macready ( 1793-1873 ) was equally unfortunate as to his nose ; but , unlike the great philosopher , he did not bear his burden with patience . It is said that when he rehearsed his parts before a ...
... Coming to modern times , the tragedian Macready ( 1793-1873 ) was equally unfortunate as to his nose ; but , unlike the great philosopher , he did not bear his burden with patience . It is said that when he rehearsed his parts before a ...
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... coming to close quarters with his giant antagonist , Kenelm delivers a scientific blow straight from the shoulder , which lays his giant foe prostrate , and senseless on the sod . " Happy is he whose fighting cause is just ; Thrice ...
... coming to close quarters with his giant antagonist , Kenelm delivers a scientific blow straight from the shoulder , which lays his giant foe prostrate , and senseless on the sod . " Happy is he whose fighting cause is just ; Thrice ...
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Page 29 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 13 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 61 - My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 197 - Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least— at least I mean what I say — that's the same thing, you know.
Page 97 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 263 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 265 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 8 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend. To these two original diversities may be reduced all those impertinent classifications of Gothic and Celtic tribes, white men, black men, red men. All the dwellers upon earth...
Page 31 - For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given [us] for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
Page 4 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...