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Términos y frases comunes
asked beauty better breath called character child colour daughter dear delight Edwin Chadwick ELIZA COOK'S England English eyes face father feel Fleet Street flowers France French girl give green habits hand happy Haydon head heard heart honour hope hour Kennington Oval kind knew labour lady leave live London Longwood look Lord Lord John Russell Louis XVI Madame Maidstone Marie Antoinette marriage matter mind Montenegrins Morlaix morning mother Mozart nature never night once passed Philip picture poet poor prince racter replied rose round Russia Sam Slick seemed slave smile song soon soul spirit Sthenos Street sweet teetotal tell thee things thou thought tion took towns truth turn Twink Vallorbes voice wife woman words young
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Página 187 - the wild Caliban, in his rugged simplicity, babbles as if it were no better than mere drunken talk : I pr*Ythee, let me bring thee where crabs grow ; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ; Show thee a
Página 76 - Baby keeps a-squalling, Woman looks at me ; Asks about the distance, Says it's tiresome talking, Noises of the cars Are so very shocking ! Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges ; Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale— Bless me !—this is pleasant, Riding ou
Página 351 - away from his fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ears after seven score years. He was always alone, alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense genius : an awful downfall and ruin
Página 76 - SINGING through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges ; Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale— Bless me !—this is pleasant, Riding on a rail ! Men of different " stations " In the eye of Fame, Here are very quickly Coming to the
Página 350 - of himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke :—' All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might he used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts
Página 331 - was lost ; for want of the shoe, the horse was lost ; for want of the horse, the aide-de-camp himself was lost, for the enemy took him and killed him -, and for want of the aide-de-camp's intelligence, the army of his general was lost : and all because a little nail had not been properly fixed in a horse's shoe
Página 273 - its appointed mode and measure, shall shine before men, and be of service constant and holy. Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race for ever.
Página 76 - Market-woman careful Of the precious casket, Knowing " eggs are eggs," Tightly holds her basket; Feeling that " a smash," If it came, would surely Send her eggs to pot Rather prematurely ! Ancient maiden lady Anxiously remarks, That there must be peril 'Mong so many sparks : Roguish-looking fellow, Turning to the stranger,
Página 298 - often as I called for small-beer, the master tipped the wink, and the servant brought me a brimmer of October. Some time after dinner I ordered my cousin's man, who came with me, to get ready the horses ; but it was resolved I should not stir that night ; and when I seemed pretty much bent
Página 301 - the capital, those students who could not afford to purchase largely had a resource. The shops of the great booksellers near St. Paul's Churchyard, were crowded every day, and all day long with readers ; and a known customer was often permitted to carry a volume home. In the