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... heard and seen more , and dreamt more than all . My brain is filled , therefore , with all kinds of odds and ends . In travelling , these heterogeneous matters have become shaken up in my mind , as the articles are apt to be in an ill ...
... heard and seen more , and dreamt more than all . My brain is filled , therefore , with all kinds of odds and ends . In travelling , these heterogeneous matters have become shaken up in my mind , as the articles are apt to be in an ill ...
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... heard but the nasal communications of two or three veteran masticators , who having been silent while awake , were indemnifying the company in their sleep . At length the announcement of tea and coffee in the cedar- parlor roused all ...
... heard but the nasal communications of two or three veteran masticators , who having been silent while awake , were indemnifying the company in their sleep . At length the announcement of tea and coffee in the cedar- parlor roused all ...
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... heard my uncle tell as having happened to himself . He was a man very apt to meet with strange adven- tures . I have heard him tell of others much more singular . " " What kind of a man was your uncle ? " said the questioning gentleman ...
... heard my uncle tell as having happened to himself . He was a man very apt to meet with strange adven- tures . I have heard him tell of others much more singular . " " What kind of a man was your uncle ? " said the questioning gentleman ...
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... heard him say himself , was a man not easily frightened . So he lay quiet , sup- posing this some other guest , or some servant on his way to bed . The footsteps , however , approached the door ; the door gently opened ; whether of its ...
... heard him say himself , was a man not easily frightened . So he lay quiet , sup- posing this some other guest , or some servant on his way to bed . The footsteps , however , approached the door ; the door gently opened ; whether of its ...
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... heard him through with profound attention , holding his snuff - box unopened in his hand . When the story was finished , he tapped on the lid of his box deliberately , took a long , sonorous pinch of snuff- " Bah ! " said the Marquis ...
... heard him through with profound attention , holding his snuff - box unopened in his hand . When the story was finished , he tapped on the lid of his box deliberately , took a long , sonorous pinch of snuff- " Bah ! " said the Marquis ...
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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.