Wolfert's roost: and other sketches, 78. kötet |
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100. oldal
... Regent . Law had at length found his man . The Duke of Orleans has been differently represented by different contemporaries . He appears to have had excellent natural qualities , perverted by a bad education . He was of the middle size ...
... Regent . Law had at length found his man . The Duke of Orleans has been differently represented by different contemporaries . He appears to have had excellent natural qualities , perverted by a bad education . He was of the middle size ...
101. oldal
... Regent used to shut himself up , after the hours of busi- ness , and excluding all graver persons and graver concerns , celebrate the most drunken and disgusting orgies , where obscenity and blasphemy formed the seasoning of conversa ...
... Regent used to shut himself up , after the hours of busi- ness , and excluding all graver persons and graver concerns , celebrate the most drunken and disgusting orgies , where obscenity and blasphemy formed the seasoning of conversa ...
102. oldal
... Regent in his cause . He persuaded him that he saw more clearly than others into sublime theories of finance , which were quite above the ordinary apprehension . He used to declare that , excepting the Regent and the Duke of Savoy , no ...
... Regent in his cause . He persuaded him that he saw more clearly than others into sublime theories of finance , which were quite above the ordinary apprehension . He used to declare that , excepting the Regent and the Duke of Savoy , no ...
103. oldal
... Regent's debased coin , and seventy - five per cent . of the public secu- rities , which were then at a great reduction from their nominal value , and which then amounted to nineteen hundred millions . The ostensible object of the bank ...
... Regent's debased coin , and seventy - five per cent . of the public secu- rities , which were then at a great reduction from their nominal value , and which then amounted to nineteen hundred millions . The ostensible object of the bank ...
104. oldal
... Regent ordered that its bills should be received the same as coin , in all payments of the public revenue . Law was appointed chief director of this company , which was an exact copy of the Earl of Oxford's South Sea Company , set on ...
... Regent ordered that its bills should be received the same as coin , in all payments of the public revenue . Law was appointed chief director of this company , which was an exact copy of the Earl of Oxford's South Sea Company , set on ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado alcayde ancient arms bank became beheld Bermudas bosom called caravel castle cavalier commander Communipaw companions Count of Angoulême court cried daughter delight Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father favourite forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe hand head heard heart honour horse Indians inhabitants island Julia kind knew ladies land length lived livres looked Louis XIV louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning neighbourhood never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed Phantom Island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round sachem sail seated seemed Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon Spanish spirit story thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose window Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
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68. oldal - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
215. oldal - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
17. oldal - Does he take warning and reform? Alas ! not he. Incorrigible epicure ! again he wings his flight. The rice swamps of the south invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career: behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some southern gastronome.
60. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
19. oldal - The trees, under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets. In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land...
68. oldal - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
16. oldal - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
15. oldal - Nature is in all her freshness and fragrance: "the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
60. oldal - Nor is our simple pleasure mixed with pains. Our sports begin with the beginning year ; In calms, to pull the leaping fish to land. In roughs, to sing and dance along the ; along the yellow sand.
46. oldal - It was passing strange. I felt that if she were an old woman, I should be quite at my ease; if she were even an ugly woman, I should make out very well; it was her beauty that overpowered me. How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are, in the eyes of inexperienced youth! Young men brought up in the fashionable circles of our cities will smile at all this. Accustomed to mingle incessantly in female society, and to have the romance of the heart deadened by a thousand frivolous flirtations,...