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... the bright fields , the gay cities , the lovely human forms and faces we had read and dreamt about ! Not to have to think of them as fancies merely , but to know them all as realities THE FOURTH ORDER OF REPTILES . 9.
... the bright fields , the gay cities , the lovely human forms and faces we had read and dreamt about ! Not to have to think of them as fancies merely , but to know them all as realities THE FOURTH ORDER OF REPTILES . 9.
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... glorious sun of Heaven , and doze our time away ? Or , say , shall we seek the twopenny chair of state , and for that modest outlay study human kind from under the broad - spreading trees ? Again I ask , 2 -ABOVE THE FIRST STUDY, WESTWARD.
... glorious sun of Heaven , and doze our time away ? Or , say , shall we seek the twopenny chair of state , and for that modest outlay study human kind from under the broad - spreading trees ? Again I ask , 2 -ABOVE THE FIRST STUDY, WESTWARD.
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... humanity , with a background of nurserymaids and children , clustered at that part where they could all meet ; but they were nobodies . They kept to their own unfashionable corner , and did not intrude on the line of grey - kidded ...
... humanity , with a background of nurserymaids and children , clustered at that part where they could all meet ; but they were nobodies . They kept to their own unfashionable corner , and did not intrude on the line of grey - kidded ...
Página 38
... human beings , as you for the time being , I for always , here . Why then all this senseless stifling of what is natural ? why this hollow pretence of so many ? Why , indeed ! How can I justify it to you ? Ah ! if people would but pause ...
... human beings , as you for the time being , I for always , here . Why then all this senseless stifling of what is natural ? why this hollow pretence of so many ? Why , indeed ! How can I justify it to you ? Ah ! if people would but pause ...
Página 49
... humanity in this vast place . No. The season is a period when there are more people here than at any other time of the year . But to talk of this city as ever being ' empty ' or with ' nobody in it , ' as many do talk , is an absurdity ...
... humanity in this vast place . No. The season is a period when there are more people here than at any other time of the year . But to talk of this city as ever being ' empty ' or with ' nobody in it , ' as many do talk , is an absurdity ...
Términos y frases comunes
answered arms asked beautiful busy carriages certainly church CITY OF PLEASURE close cloth course cried Croaker crowd Crown 8vo darlings delighted door Dot's doubt dressed excitement exclaimed eyes face fancy fashion Fcap fear flowers front garden gaze glanced Great-heart told hands happy hatchment head heart Hebrew Bible high bailiff hope hour hurry inquired knew lady little Dot Lollards looked Lowther Street luggage maiden mind morning morocco murmured nearly never night nymphets once party passed pleasure plenty poor portmanteaus Presently Punch and Judy quiet rooks round seemed Shetland ponies side sight sister smile soon sorrow sort stood sure talk tell things thought took travellers trees Trixie and Dot Trixie's truly turned waiting walk watched whispered window wonderful words
Pasajes populares
Página 368 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 248 - Tis the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...