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... length , in despair , " if I cannot read a book , I will write one . " Never was there a more lucky idea ; it at once gave me occupation and amusement . The writing of a book was considered in old times as an enterprise of toil and ...
... length , in despair , " if I cannot read a book , I will write one . " Never was there a more lucky idea ; it at once gave me occupation and amusement . The writing of a book was considered in old times as an enterprise of toil and ...
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... length subsided into silence ; and scarcely any thing was 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 ...
... length subsided into silence ; and scarcely any thing was 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 ...
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... length the figure turned gently round , casting a glassy look about the apart- ment , which , as it passed over my uncle , made his blood run cold , and chilled the very marrow in his bones . It then stretched its arms towards heaven ...
... length the figure turned gently round , casting a glassy look about the apart- ment , which , as it passed over my uncle , made his blood run cold , and chilled the very marrow in his bones . It then stretched its arms towards heaven ...
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... length portrait , the very counterpart of his visitor of the preceding night . 66 Methinks , " said he , pointing to it , " I have seen the original of this portrait . " " Pardonnez moi , " replied the Marquis politely , THE ADVENTURE ...
... length portrait , the very counterpart of his visitor of the preceding night . 66 Methinks , " said he , pointing to it , " I have seen the original of this portrait . " " Pardonnez moi , " replied the Marquis politely , THE ADVENTURE ...
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... expense in either the quantity or quality of her mourning weeds ; wore a miniature of him about her neck as large as a little sun - dial , and had a full- length portrait of him always hanging in her bed - The Adventure of My Aunt,
... expense in either the quantity or quality of her mourning weeds ; wore a miniature of him about her neck as large as a little sun - dial , and had a full- length portrait of him always hanging in her bed - The Adventure of My Aunt,
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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.