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... half score of mattresses which form a French bed , and which stood in a deep recess ; then tucking himself snugly in , and burying himself up to the chin in the bed - clothes , he lay looking at the fire , and listening to the wind ...
... half score of mattresses which form a French bed , and which stood in a deep recess ; then tucking himself snugly in , and burying himself up to the chin in the bed - clothes , he lay looking at the fire , and listening to the wind ...
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... half closed , and his nightcap drawn almost down to his nose . His 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 ...
... half closed , and his nightcap drawn almost down to his nose . His 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 ...
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... half - drenched , half - drowsy pages and attendants seemed ready to fall from their horses with sleep and fatigue . : " The Duchess was received with a hearty welcome by my ancestor . She was ushered into the hall of the chateau , and ...
... half - drenched , half - drowsy pages and attendants seemed ready to fall from their horses with sleep and fatigue . : " The Duchess was received with a hearty welcome by my ancestor . She was ushered into the hall of the chateau , and ...
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... half of merriment , half of disappointment . I was inclined to think the old gentleman had really an afterpart of his story in reserve ; but he sipped his wine and said nothing more ; and there was an odd expression about his ...
... half of merriment , half of disappointment . I was inclined to think the old gentleman had really an afterpart of his story in reserve ; but he sipped his wine and said nothing more ; and there was an odd expression about his ...
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... half the doctors in town to prescribe for him ; made him take all their prescriptions , and dosed him with physic enough to cure a whole hospital . All was in vain . My uncle grew worse and worse the more dosing and nursing he underwent ...
... half the doctors in town to prescribe for him ; made him take all their prescriptions , and dosed him with physic enough to cure a whole hospital . All was in vain . My uncle grew worse and worse the more dosing and nursing he underwent ...
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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.