My Old Portfolio; Or, Tales and SketchesSmith, Elder, and Company, 1832 - 310 oldal |
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19. oldal
... father of a family risen to the bob , and , at the same mo- ment , his wife dangles gently on the tail - fly ; give them line , though they run to the opposite shore ; then gently remind them of their captivity , and bring them back in ...
... father of a family risen to the bob , and , at the same mo- ment , his wife dangles gently on the tail - fly ; give them line , though they run to the opposite shore ; then gently remind them of their captivity , and bring them back in ...
30. oldal
... father had died many a year ago in battle : and the pension of an offi- cer's widow was all the fortune he had left them . But nature had bestowed riches of a more valuable kind than those which fortune had denied . I wish I could ...
... father had died many a year ago in battle : and the pension of an offi- cer's widow was all the fortune he had left them . But nature had bestowed riches of a more valuable kind than those which fortune had denied . I wish I could ...
48. oldal
... father is proud of him ; his mother doats on him ; his sisters admire him ; his cousins die for him . He publishes a thin quarto or royal octavo volume of very magnificently printed verses , his own por- trait facing the title - page ...
... father is proud of him ; his mother doats on him ; his sisters admire him ; his cousins die for him . He publishes a thin quarto or royal octavo volume of very magnificently printed verses , his own por- trait facing the title - page ...
56. oldal
... father . It was said , that when he took his gun and went out all day in search of the red deer , far up among the rocky heights , he would forget his purpose for hours ; and seating himself upon some Alpine pro- montory , would gaze ...
... father . It was said , that when he took his gun and went out all day in search of the red deer , far up among the rocky heights , he would forget his purpose for hours ; and seating himself upon some Alpine pro- montory , would gaze ...
57. oldal
... father's fondest wish was to see a son rising by his side into manhood , nor did he yet despair of having the wish gratified . It was said , his dying commands would have given that son much to do . Paulina was now thirteen ; but the ...
... father's fondest wish was to see a son rising by his side into manhood , nor did he yet despair of having the wish gratified . It was said , his dying commands would have given that son much to do . Paulina was now thirteen ; but the ...
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My Old Portfolio: Or, Tales and Sketches: by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Bell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
My Old Portfolio: Or, Tales and Sketches: by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Bell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
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155. oldal - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep Spread far around and inaccessibly Its circles?
201. oldal - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
137. oldal - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
5. oldal - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
87. oldal - Turningvort was a man of speculative as well as practical science, and there was a favourite discovery which he had long been endeavouring to make, and in accomplishing which he imagined he had at last succeeded that very morning. Like all other manufacturers of terrestrial legs, he had ever found the chief difficulty in his progress towards perfection to consist in its being...
122. oldal - Fitzclarence."— Julia's cheeks grew first as white as her brow, and then as red as her lips. As soon as breakfast was over, she retired to her own apartment, whither we must, for once, take the liberty of following her. She sat herself down before her mirror, and deliberately took from her hair a very tasteful little knot of fictitious flowers, which she had fastened in it when she rose. One naturally expected that she was about to replace this ornament with something more splendid — a few jewels,...
91. oldal - I may walk. Don't stand gaping there, but come out and relieve me, or I shall be out of sight, and you will not be able to overtake me." The mechanician grew very pale ; he was evidently not prepared for this new difficulty. He lost not a moment, however, in following the merchant to do what he could towards extricating him from so awkward a predicament. The merchant, or rather the merchant's leg, was walking very quick, and Turningvort, being an elderly man, found it no easy matter to make up to...