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... fancy was already wandering , and began to mingle up . the present scene with the crater of Vesuvius , the French Opera , the Coliseum at Rome , Dolly's chop - house in London , and all the farrago of noted places with which the brain ...
... fancy was already wandering , and began to mingle up . the present scene with the crater of Vesuvius , the French Opera , the Coliseum at Rome , Dolly's chop - house in London , and all the farrago of noted places with which the brain ...
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... fancy , had he not seen in large letters over the door , HEER VERKOOPT MAN GOEDEN DRANK . My grandfather had learnt enough of the language to know that the sign promised good liquor . " This is the house for me , " said he , stopping ...
... fancy , had he not seen in large letters over the door , HEER VERKOOPT MAN GOEDEN DRANK . My grandfather had learnt enough of the language to know that the sign promised good liquor . " This is the house for me , " said he , stopping ...
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... fancy would deck out images of loveliness far surpassing the reality . While his mind was in this excited and sublimated state , a dream produced an extraordinary effect upon him . It was of a female face of transcendent beauty . So ...
... fancy would deck out images of loveliness far surpassing the reality . While his mind was in this excited and sublimated state , a dream produced an extraordinary effect upon him . It was of a female face of transcendent beauty . So ...
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... fancy all night , and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day , was intolerable ; but the very idea was sufficient to produce the effect , and to render me still more nervous.- " Pish , " said I , " it can be no such thing . How ...
... fancy all night , and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day , was intolerable ; but the very idea was sufficient to produce the effect , and to render me still more nervous.- " Pish , " said I , " it can be no such thing . How ...
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... fire , but wild and unsteady . He seemed to be tormented by some strange fancy or apprehension . In spite of every effort to fix his attention on the conversation of his companions , I noticed that every now 74 TALES OF A TRAVELLER .
... fire , but wild and unsteady . He seemed to be tormented by some strange fancy or apprehension . In spite of every effort to fix his attention on the conversation of his companions , I noticed that every now 74 TALES OF A TRAVELLER .
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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.