New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Band 152Henry Colburn, 1878 |
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... give up Greek when she has caught him , you'll see . You coax and flatter us till we make fools of ourselves , and then there's an end of it . Take you care , Sinclair , when Geraldine wants to know all about your medal , and the ...
... give up Greek when she has caught him , you'll see . You coax and flatter us till we make fools of ourselves , and then there's an end of it . Take you care , Sinclair , when Geraldine wants to know all about your medal , and the ...
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... give an awkward laugh , and return an answer wide of the mark . His brother looked disturbed and startled , as he was obliged to come again and again to his aid . " You are almost a kinsman of my house , " said the old man , pompously ...
... give an awkward laugh , and return an answer wide of the mark . His brother looked disturbed and startled , as he was obliged to come again and again to his aid . " You are almost a kinsman of my house , " said the old man , pompously ...
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... Give way , ma bouchals ! " The bow of the pursuing craft was now almost touching the stern of Daly's boat . The watcher ahead stretched out his hand , and caught cagerly at the gunwale . Kate started to her feet , and with all her ...
... Give way , ma bouchals ! " The bow of the pursuing craft was now almost touching the stern of Daly's boat . The watcher ahead stretched out his hand , and caught cagerly at the gunwale . Kate started to her feet , and with all her ...
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... give me something - some cordial , I mean - to give me the strength to sign it . I am glad it was not my right side . You are ready , I see . Now write that in this my present and last codicil , I desire that all legacies left in my ...
... give me something - some cordial , I mean - to give me the strength to sign it . I am glad it was not my right side . You are ready , I see . Now write that in this my present and last codicil , I desire that all legacies left in my ...
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... give a guess , for until the moment of Richard finding it , not one there had seen such a thing . What it contained no one but the writer and himself ever knew ; for after reading it and re - reading it , as if unable to comprehend its ...
... give a guess , for until the moment of Richard finding it , not one there had seen such a thing . What it contained no one but the writer and himself ever knew ; for after reading it and re - reading it , as if unable to comprehend its ...
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Arthur Tollington asked Aunt Harriet Ayad Badakshan beautiful Belterre Billy Mackenzie boat called Captain Sinclair castle Cecil Charlotte cried daughter dear death Delagoa Bay door dress English Euphrates eyes face father favour Finn Hill Fitzpatrick friends Geraldine Geraldine's girl give Hamlet hand heard heart Herat honour hope India James Jezirah Johnson Josephine Kara-kul Karkisha Kate Khabur Khiva king knew lady laughed leave Lestocq letter looked Lord Lucy Lucy's Madame du Barry mamma Mary Mesopotamia Miss Moobaruk morning Mosul mother never night Nisibin O'Hara Oliver Oxus Pamir Panjah passed Persia Pleasance poor Portuguese present Ras al Ain replied river Russia seemed Sir Henry Rawlinson sister smile speak sure tell Tembe River things Thirlwell thought told Tollington took Violette Wakhan whilst wish woman words young Yukina
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Seite 280 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Seite 430 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Seite 432 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Seite 436 - Irish imagination were exhaustless I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have ever seen written — though I saw him seldom, and but occasionally.
Seite 376 - ... and even then he kept all his wits about him, to express the most humble and pathetic petitions to the Almighty : and when the first paralytic stroke took his speech from him, he instantly set about composing a prayer in Latin, at once to deprecate God's mercy, to satisfy himself that his mental powers remained unimpaired, and to keep them in exercise, that they might not perish by permitted stagnation.
Seite 378 - Nay, hold Mr. Johnson, and do not make a farce of thanking God for a dinner which in a few minutes you will protest not eatable.
Seite 377 - Mother, I have not deceived Mrs. Porter : I have told her the worst of me ; that I am of mean extraction ; that I have no money ; and that I have had an uncle hanged.
Seite 378 - a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner, and if he cannot get that well dressed, he should be suspected of inaccuracy in other things." One day, when he was speaking upon the subject, I asked him if he ever huffed his wife about his dinner? "So often," replied he, "that at last she called to me, and said, 'Nay, hold, Mr.
Seite 377 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the* fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, Mr, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved lo begin as I meant to end.
Seite 432 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen, (said he,) Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith ; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.