Once a Week, Volume 2; Volume 15Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1866 - England |
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... passed , the grub changed into a chrysalis , the chrysalis into a butterfly , with its hunters in the country , its yacht at Southampton , its house in town , its villa on the banks of the Thames , its French cook , its rare wines , its ...
... passed , the grub changed into a chrysalis , the chrysalis into a butterfly , with its hunters in the country , its yacht at Southampton , its house in town , its villa on the banks of the Thames , its French cook , its rare wines , its ...
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... passed away from earth as she has passed away from the memory of man . Her publisher at the Hague , in his " Avis au Lecteurs , " speaks of Madame de la Guette as being alive at the time her memoirs were published , in 1681 , when she ...
... passed away from earth as she has passed away from the memory of man . Her publisher at the Hague , in his " Avis au Lecteurs , " speaks of Madame de la Guette as being alive at the time her memoirs were published , in 1681 , when she ...
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... passed in the reign of Henry III . , the lord of the manor obtained permission to inclose against com- mon of pasture ( though not of estovers or of turbary ) so much of the waste as he pleased for tillage or wood ground , provided he ...
... passed in the reign of Henry III . , the lord of the manor obtained permission to inclose against com- mon of pasture ( though not of estovers or of turbary ) so much of the waste as he pleased for tillage or wood ground , provided he ...
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... passing fair- To each picture whispering stories of the deeds of long ago , Each a parable foretelling truths in time I came to know , But whose meaning passed unheeded , as I looked through childish eyes On the world outstretched ...
... passing fair- To each picture whispering stories of the deeds of long ago , Each a parable foretelling truths in time I came to know , But whose meaning passed unheeded , as I looked through childish eyes On the world outstretched ...
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... passed on me . But first I was again questioned as to the names , professions , and numbers of the liberals in Naples - those who were considered compromised and guilty , not of active participation in our conspiracy against the ...
... passed on me . But first I was again questioned as to the names , professions , and numbers of the liberals in Naples - those who were considered compromised and guilty , not of active participation in our conspiracy against the ...
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Page 44 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 363 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 178 - There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Page 86 - I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee...
Page 251 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Page 230 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Page 444 - Sir . . . Dayrell, of Littlecote, in Corn. Wilts, having gott his lady's waiting-woman with child, when her travell came, sent a servant with a horse for a midwife, whom he was to bring hoodwinked. She was brought, and layd the woman, but as soon as the child was...
Page 210 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 417 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ! Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.
Page 201 - Be ye certain all seems love, Viewed from Allah's throne above; Be ye stout of heart, and come Bravely onward to your home! La Allah ilia Allah!