Morton's Hope: Or, The Memoirs of a Provincial, Volum 2

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Harper & brothers, 1839
 

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Pàgina 77 - FAUST. Was bin ich denn, wenn es nicht möglich ist, Der Menschheit Krone zu erringen, Nach der sich alle Sinne dringen? MEPHISTOPHELES. Du bist am Ende — was du bist. Setz dir Perücken auf von Millionen Locken, Setz deinen Fuß auf ellenhohe Socken, Du bleibst doch immer, was du bist.
Pàgina 100 - It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers. But truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
Pàgina 150 - In company with Mr. Bernhoft and his daughter, I made a second excursion of half a mile to see the salmon-fishery at the Larself (salmon stream), which takes place every year from the middle of June to the middle of August. It is conducted in a very simple manner. After the fish have repaired to the stream at the spawning time, their way back to the sea is cut off by a wall of stones lightly piled together, about three feet high. A net is raised in front of this wall, and several other barriers of...
Pàgina 216 - ... There were a few Jesuits and French traders usually to be found in most Indian villages of that tribe. " The priest whose acquaintance I had now the honour of making, was, it seemed to me, a type of his calling and his sect. " He was a tall spare man, of a sallow and adust complexion ; for father Simon was none of your ordinary, well-fed, greasy priests. There was genius in his crafty eye and in his scornful mouth. But it was an evil genius, — a genius of ambition, rapaciousness and cruelty.
Pàgina 286 - I'm too sublimely ugly to look well on canvas," said Tom. " I had a photograph done lately for my sister, but the features did not seem to have made up their minds as to their places ! The eyes were everywhere. I did not notice the nose, but the mouth seemed to be nowhere.

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