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... to lie thus for ever ! or , if dying Hath aught with these things , oh to die thus lying ! R. W. DIXON . 238 OUR TRIP TO TENBY . IN TWO CHAPTERS . In the Woods . 237 inexpressibly ludicrous. At any rate, the fact that ...
... to lie thus for ever ! or , if dying Hath aught with these things , oh to die thus lying ! R. W. DIXON . 238 OUR TRIP TO TENBY . IN TWO CHAPTERS . In the Woods . 237 inexpressibly ludicrous. At any rate, the fact that ...
Page 238
... Tenby ? I was quartered near there ( at Pater once ) , and do promise and pledge that you shall find it a sea - side paradise . " " Tenby neither , my good fellow , " said my young Captain brother ; " I have heard tell of the journey ...
... Tenby ? I was quartered near there ( at Pater once ) , and do promise and pledge that you shall find it a sea - side paradise . " " Tenby neither , my good fellow , " said my young Captain brother ; " I have heard tell of the journey ...
Page 239
... Tenby it shall be , " we said ; " our friends the Taylors are staying there , and seem in complete raptures with its scenery , bathing and freedom . Going to Gloucester is nothing ; and we can then go on , with hardly any stopping ...
... Tenby it shall be , " we said ; " our friends the Taylors are staying there , and seem in complete raptures with its scenery , bathing and freedom . Going to Gloucester is nothing ; and we can then go on , with hardly any stopping ...
Page 240
... Tenby is an oasis in the desert ; no country can be more barren and uninteresting than that through which the coach- road takes you ; no sea - coast can be more magnificent and healthy than that to which it leads you . It was duskish ...
... Tenby is an oasis in the desert ; no country can be more barren and uninteresting than that through which the coach- road takes you ; no sea - coast can be more magnificent and healthy than that to which it leads you . It was duskish ...
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... Tenby has no superior , few equals . We had to wait a long time for machines ( who has not ? ) , but we were well amused in watching the manners and customs around us . There stood a lady whose head was covered with luxuriant hair ...
... Tenby has no superior , few equals . We had to wait a long time for machines ( who has not ? ) , but we were well amused in watching the manners and customs around us . There stood a lady whose head was covered with luxuriant hair ...
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Page 134 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 265 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 301 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 266 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 322 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 141 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Page 265 - After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, ' I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas I good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 269 - Therefore, to ride comely; to run fair at the tilt or ring; to play at all weapons; to shoot fair in bow or surely in gun; to vault lustily; to run, to leap, to wrestle, to swim; to dance comely; to sing, and play...
Page 266 - It is your shame (I speak to you all, you young gentlemen of England) that one maid should go beyond you all, in excellency of learning and knowledge of divers tongues.
Page 266 - ... else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips...