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Page 106
... Head . I should not have known this story , had not the innkeeper , upon Sir Roger's alighting , told him in my hearing , that his honour's head was brought back last night with the alterations that he had ordered to be made in it ...
... Head . I should not have known this story , had not the innkeeper , upon Sir Roger's alighting , told him in my hearing , that his honour's head was brought back last night with the alterations that he had ordered to be made in it ...
Page 420
... head ; his muzzle black as night , his mouth blacker than any night , a tooth or two - being all he had - gleaming out of his jaws of darkness . His head was scarred with the records of old wounds , a sort of series of fields of battle ...
... head ; his muzzle black as night , his mouth blacker than any night , a tooth or two - being all he had - gleaming out of his jaws of darkness . His head was scarred with the records of old wounds , a sort of series of fields of battle ...
Page 458
... head of the table , and attracts our attention first . He is dressed in black velvet , his breast covered with a cuirass , on his head a broad - brimmed black hat with white plumes . He is comfortably seated on a chair of black oak ...
... head of the table , and attracts our attention first . He is dressed in black velvet , his breast covered with a cuirass , on his head a broad - brimmed black hat with white plumes . He is comfortably seated on a chair of black oak ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |