Confessions of country quarters, Volum 635 |
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Pàgina 3
... better than usual ; there are not dragoons enough to inoculate them with stable slang and canteen man- ners . One girl , daughter of an old fellow ( pork and provision trade ) , who is as rich as a Jew , and gives dinners twice a - week ...
... better than usual ; there are not dragoons enough to inoculate them with stable slang and canteen man- ners . One girl , daughter of an old fellow ( pork and provision trade ) , who is as rich as a Jew , and gives dinners twice a - week ...
Pàgina 4
... better than take up with Ellen ; there are many worse ways of spend- ing an evening than a quiet game of écarté with her . You understand ; and though it is true that when she has too much cham- pagne on board she is apt to be ...
... better than take up with Ellen ; there are many worse ways of spend- ing an evening than a quiet game of écarté with her . You understand ; and though it is true that when she has too much cham- pagne on board she is apt to be ...
Pàgina 5
... better try some other souvenir when you go away . Our head quarters will get on pretty well at Cork , but I am booked for a diabolical hole called Dunmanway , further to the south - west . I do not believe it is on any of the maps . I ...
... better try some other souvenir when you go away . Our head quarters will get on pretty well at Cork , but I am booked for a diabolical hole called Dunmanway , further to the south - west . I do not believe it is on any of the maps . I ...
Pàgina 6
... impertinent Quaker at Norwich once went so far as to say , that we were better known than trusted in that flourish- ing city , but that was a drab - coloured calumny ; and as the reader is probably an ignorant 6 CONFESSIONS OF.
... impertinent Quaker at Norwich once went so far as to say , that we were better known than trusted in that flourish- ing city , but that was a drab - coloured calumny ; and as the reader is probably an ignorant 6 CONFESSIONS OF.
Pàgina 15
... the order , through the better half , seem , with a touching devotion , to take after the mother , gleaming with a placid self - satisfaction that is unruffled by any masculine roughness , and shining in COUNTRY QUARTERS . 15.
... the order , through the better half , seem , with a touching devotion , to take after the mother , gleaming with a placid self - satisfaction that is unruffled by any masculine roughness , and shining in COUNTRY QUARTERS . 15.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 259 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Pàgina 248 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pàgina 126 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pàgina 197 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Pàgina 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Pàgina 109 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Pàgina 11 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Pàgina 20 - Act, other than the Person thereunto authorized by Law, shall assume or use the Name, Style, or Title of Archbishop of any Province, Bishop of any Bishoprick, or Dean of any Deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
Pàgina 256 - They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Pàgina 183 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...