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... Hall , had an awful chance to save his " perewinke " in such an encounter ; when , with his " bonnet vail'd , " according to the " courtesies " of his time , " Travelling along in London way , " he has to recover his " auburn locks ...
... Hall , had an awful chance to save his " perewinke " in such an encounter ; when , with his " bonnet vail'd , " according to the " courtesies " of his time , " Travelling along in London way , " he has to recover his " auburn locks ...
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... halls of Nuneham ; no servant to show her to her room - no welcome - no offered refreshment . Plain Mrs. Schwellenberg gives her a premonition when , with her own pretensions as Miss Burney , she tells the German lady that she had been ...
... halls of Nuneham ; no servant to show her to her room - no welcome - no offered refreshment . Plain Mrs. Schwellenberg gives her a premonition when , with her own pretensions as Miss Burney , she tells the German lady that she had been ...
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... Hall , about which so much has been talked , was sadly out of character with its chival- rous associations . Verrio , with the wretched taste of his age , had painted a Roman triumph on the walls , in which the principal personages were ...
... Hall , about which so much has been talked , was sadly out of character with its chival- rous associations . Verrio , with the wretched taste of his age , had painted a Roman triumph on the walls , in which the principal personages were ...
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... Hall there was a Guard Chamber , with matchlocks and bandoleers , and such like curiosities , and a rapid sketch of the Battle of Nordlingen , painted for a triumphal arch by Rubens , worth all the works of Verrio , plastered as they ...
... Hall there was a Guard Chamber , with matchlocks and bandoleers , and such like curiosities , and a rapid sketch of the Battle of Nordlingen , painted for a triumphal arch by Rubens , worth all the works of Verrio , plastered as they ...
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... Hall ! How they blundered and broke down ; or swore bravely that the ten - pound - a - year tenement was a fictitious rental , or that the apprentice ran away in the last week of his servitude . It was a glorious scene , whoever ...
... Hall ! How they blundered and broke down ; or swore bravely that the ten - pound - a - year tenement was a fictitious rental , or that the apprentice ran away in the last week of his servitude . It was a glorious scene , whoever ...
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Seite 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
Seite 136 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Seite 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go ; He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries Fate and Physic in his eye...
Seite 85 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Seite 79 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Seite 14 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
Seite 54 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
Seite 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
Seite 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...