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... fact , I can- not determine whether I have read , heard , or dreamt it ; and I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories . These matters being premised , fall to , worthy reader , with good appetite ; and , above ...
... fact , I can- not determine whether I have read , heard , or dreamt it ; and I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories . These matters being premised , fall to , worthy reader , with good appetite ; and , above ...
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... fact , he was proud of his old family chateau , for part of it was extremely old . There was a tower and chapel which had been built almost before the memory of man ; but the rest was more modern , the castle having been nearly ...
... fact , he was proud of his old family chateau , for part of it was extremely old . There was a tower and chapel which had been built almost before the memory of man ; but the rest was more modern , the castle having been nearly ...
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... fact , my uncle had pulled upon himself the whole history of the civil war of the Fronde , in which the beautiful Duchess had played so distinguished a part . Turenne , Coligni , Mazarine , were called up from their graves to grace his ...
... fact , my uncle had pulled upon himself the whole history of the civil war of the Fronde , in which the beautiful Duchess had played so distinguished a part . Turenne , Coligni , Mazarine , were called up from their graves to grace his ...
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... fact , she put one hand to her forehead as if rubbing it ; peeped through her fingers , and moved the candle with the other hand . The light of the taper gleamed on the eye , and was reflected from it . She was sure it moved . Nay more ...
... fact , she put one hand to her forehead as if rubbing it ; peeped through her fingers , and moved the candle with the other hand . The light of the taper gleamed on the eye , and was reflected from it . She was sure it moved . Nay more ...
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... fact , he was one of that very army , which , according to my uncle Toby , swore so terribly in Flanders . He could swear a good stick himself ; and moreover was the very man that introduced the doctrine Corporal Trim mentions of ...
... fact , he was one of that very army , which , according to my uncle Toby , swore so terribly in Flanders . He could swear a good stick himself ; and moreover was the very man that introduced the doctrine Corporal Trim mentions of ...
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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.