Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... Court an old - fashioned life of publicity , which wholly passed away in the seclusion of the next reign , when the King was seldom seen by his people , much less living among them in a sort of family intimacy , such as I had looked ...
... Court an old - fashioned life of publicity , which wholly passed away in the seclusion of the next reign , when the King was seldom seen by his people , much less living among them in a sort of family intimacy , such as I had looked ...
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... Court of Wards , " instantly he was begged at Court , " but died two days after . ' Begg'd at Court , ' as the novel was called , is the story of this " poor rich man's " daughter , who , in place of her father , has been given as a ...
... Court of Wards , " instantly he was begged at Court , " but died two days after . ' Begg'd at Court , ' as the novel was called , is the story of this " poor rich man's " daughter , who , in place of her father , has been given as a ...
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... Court sniffed this filthy reek . In the fields around Frog- more it tainted the cowslip and the hawthorn blossom . Municipal or royal dignitaries never in- terfered to abate or remove the nuisance . In truth , the word nuisance had ...
... Court sniffed this filthy reek . In the fields around Frog- more it tainted the cowslip and the hawthorn blossom . Municipal or royal dignitaries never in- terfered to abate or remove the nuisance . In truth , the word nuisance had ...
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... side , Mr. James Wyatt , the Surveyor - General . He has been busy about the Castle for a year or two . A few of the mean circular - headed windows - by which the upper court was deformed , when Wren , at the 34 EARLY REMINISCENCES :
... side , Mr. James Wyatt , the Surveyor - General . He has been busy about the Castle for a year or two . A few of the mean circular - headed windows - by which the upper court was deformed , when Wren , at the 34 EARLY REMINISCENCES :
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... Court of Record , whose jurisdiction extended over the forest of Windsor comprising many parishes . Here , under the arch , was the prison of this " Castle Court , " which in 1790 was described as a disgrace to the sight and to the ...
... Court of Record , whose jurisdiction extended over the forest of Windsor comprising many parishes . Here , under the arch , was the prison of this " Castle Court , " which in 1790 was described as a disgrace to the sight and to the ...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
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Página 247 - I think poor beggars court St. Giles, Rich beggars court St. Stephen ; And Death looks down with nods and smiles, And makes the odds all even : I think some die upon the field, And some upon the billow, And some are laid beneath a shield, And some beneath a willow. I think that very few have...
Página 13 - For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 101 - ... without actual malice, and without gross negligence; and that before the commencement of the action, or at the earliest opportunity afterwards...
Página 246 - I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
Página 245 - I THINK, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavour, — A wreath, a rank, a throne, a grave, — The world goes round for ever : I think that life is not too long ; And therefore I determine, That many people read a song Who will not read a sermon.
Página 247 - I think the Devil not so black As many people make him. I think that Love is like a play, Where tears and smiles are blended, Or like a faithless April day, Whose shine with shower is ended : Like Colnbrook pavement, rather rough, Like trade, exposed to losses, And like a Highland plaid, — all stuff, And very full of crosses.