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... better understood now - a - days . 66 Thanks to the improvements in all kind of manufac tures , the art of book - making has been made familiar to the meanest capacity . Every body is an author . The scribbling of a quarto is the mere ...
... better understood now - a - days . 66 Thanks to the improvements in all kind of manufac tures , the art of book - making has been made familiar to the meanest capacity . Every body is an author . The scribbling of a quarto is the mere ...
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... better fitted than the present for a ghost adventure . Pray , Sir John , haven't you such a thing as a haunted chamber to put a guest in ? " " Perhaps , " said the Baronet , smiling , " I might accommodate you even on that point ...
... better fitted than the present for a ghost adventure . Pray , Sir John , haven't you such a thing as a haunted chamber to put a guest in ? " " Perhaps , " said the Baronet , smiling , " I might accommodate you even on that point ...
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... better terms in those days than at present , and mingled cordially in society . The English went abroad to spend money then , and the French were always ready to help them : they go abroad to save money at present , and that they can do ...
... better terms in those days than at present , and mingled cordially in society . The English went abroad to spend money then , and the French were always ready to help them : they go abroad to save money at present , and that they can do ...
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... be a traveller of taste , and fond of antiquities ; and also because the better apartments were already occupied . Indeed , he perfectly reconciled my uncle to his quarters by mentioning the great 26 TALES OF A TRAVELLER .
... be a traveller of taste , and fond of antiquities ; and also because the better apartments were already occupied . Indeed , he perfectly reconciled my uncle to his quarters by mentioning the great 26 TALES OF A TRAVELLER .
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... better ; she gave her hand shortly after to the roistering squire ; for she used to observe , that it was a dis- mal thing for a woman to sleep alone in the country . " " She was right , " observed the inquisitive gentleman , nod- ding ...
... better ; she gave her hand shortly after to the roistering squire ; for she used to observe , that it was a dis- mal thing for a woman to sleep alone in the country . " " She was right , " observed the inquisitive gentleman , nod- ding ...
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Página 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 230 - ... true sympathy; how few love us for ourselves; how few will befriend us in our misfortunes; then it is that we think of the mother we have lost. It is true I had always loved my mother, even in my most heedless days; but I felt how inconsiderate and ineffectual had been my love. My heart melted as I retraced the days of infancy, when I was led by a mother's hand, and rocked to sleep in a mother's arms, and was without care or sorrow. "O my mother!
Página 363 - Now I remember those old women's words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid...
Página xi - There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.