Make Your Game, Or, The Adventures of the Stout Gentleman, the Slim Gentleman, and the Man with the Iron Chest: A Narrative of the Rhine and ThereaboutsWard and Lock, 1860 - 266 Seiten |
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... once his good friends the critics will forbear to train against so tiny a mon- ticule of writing , their great guns of analysis and demolition . It may occasionally be excusable - if for no other reason than for this , that a plenitude ...
... once his good friends the critics will forbear to train against so tiny a mon- ticule of writing , their great guns of analysis and demolition . It may occasionally be excusable - if for no other reason than for this , that a plenitude ...
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... once and permanently the Stout Gentleman , the Slim Gentleman , and the Man with the Iron Chest , to yawn fearfully , to fling down journals , weekly and daily , to declare , stretching their arms recklessly , that there was nothing in ...
... once and permanently the Stout Gentleman , the Slim Gentleman , and the Man with the Iron Chest , to yawn fearfully , to fling down journals , weekly and daily , to declare , stretching their arms recklessly , that there was nothing in ...
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... Maine . Splendid city , Frankfort . Rothschild's house , St. Paul's church , Danneker's Ariadne , the Jew's street- 29 " And the Frankfort lottery , " the iron - chested man observed . " I had a ticket in it once MAKE YOUR GAME . 9.
... Maine . Splendid city , Frankfort . Rothschild's house , St. Paul's church , Danneker's Ariadne , the Jew's street- 29 " And the Frankfort lottery , " the iron - chested man observed . " I had a ticket in it once MAKE YOUR GAME . 9.
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... once , and ought to have won a ruined castle on the Rhine and the title of baron , only I didn't . Somebody else always does . " So the Rhine tour , as sketched out above , was fixed upon ; and the first stage of the journey was to be ...
... once , and ought to have won a ruined castle on the Rhine and the title of baron , only I didn't . Somebody else always does . " So the Rhine tour , as sketched out above , was fixed upon ; and the first stage of the journey was to be ...
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... once been met with on Hampstead Heath , the man vainly endeavouring to persuade a donkey - boy to hoist it on a side - saddled ass for conveyance to " Jack Straw's Castle . " What did it contain ? Title - deeds , gold , bank - notes ...
... once been met with on Hampstead Heath , the man vainly endeavouring to persuade a donkey - boy to hoist it on a side - saddled ass for conveyance to " Jack Straw's Castle . " What did it contain ? Title - deeds , gold , bank - notes ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 87 - TO THE LADY ANNE HAMILTON.* Too late I staid, forgive the crime, Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass...
Seite 97 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Seite 189 - The unfledged gamester watches the play more narrowly. A stout lady in a maroon velvet mantle, and a man with a bald head, a black patch on his occiput, and gold spectacles, obligingly makes way for him.
Seite 194 - ... indignation meetings of Venezuelan bond-holders, coupons, cases of champagne, satin-skinned horses with plaited manes, grand stands, pretty faces, bright flags, lobster salads, cold lamb, fortune-telling gipsies, barouches-and-four, and "our Aunt Sally." High play is still rife in some aristocratic clubs ; there are prosperous gentlemen who wear clean linen every day, and whose names are still in the Army List, who make their...
Seite 98 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Seite 195 - Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office.
Seite 122 - And as she listen'd to the Springs Of Life within, like music flowing, And caught the light upon her wings Through the half-open portal glowing, She wept to think her recreant race Should e'er have lost that glorious place ! "How happy,
Seite 170 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Seite 183 - ... to shuffle and mix. He then finally shuffles them, and removes the end cards into various parts of the three hundred and twelve cards, until he meets with a court card, which he must place upright at the end.