The North American Miscellany, Volum 2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 100.
Pàgina 9
... dark - brown , rather low , but of extraordinary strength and symmetry of frame , with a beautiful little head , and small , pointed ears , which — when excited by the difficulty in front of him , whether fence or foe , a brook or a ...
... dark - brown , rather low , but of extraordinary strength and symmetry of frame , with a beautiful little head , and small , pointed ears , which — when excited by the difficulty in front of him , whether fence or foe , a brook or a ...
Pàgina 16
... dark stair , through a crazy door , into a room not very light , not very large , not in the least splendid ; with queer corners , and quaint carvings , and massive chimney - pieces ; with tall cupboards with prim - doors , and squat ...
... dark stair , through a crazy door , into a room not very light , not very large , not in the least splendid ; with queer corners , and quaint carvings , and massive chimney - pieces ; with tall cupboards with prim - doors , and squat ...
Pàgina 18
... , which is stitute for gin . " indeed a large exception . It is as if the " I have also beard that the atmosphere Huguenots had brought their streets along Up a dark narrow winding public stair , such as 18 SPITALFIELDS .
... , which is stitute for gin . " indeed a large exception . It is as if the " I have also beard that the atmosphere Huguenots had brought their streets along Up a dark narrow winding public stair , such as 18 SPITALFIELDS .
Pàgina 19
Up a dark narrow winding public stair , such as are numerous Lyons or in the wynds and closes of the old town of ... darkness in it and too little air , but no want of scholars . An infant school on the ground - floor , where the infants ...
Up a dark narrow winding public stair , such as are numerous Lyons or in the wynds and closes of the old town of ... darkness in it and too little air , but no want of scholars . An infant school on the ground - floor , where the infants ...
Pàgina 20
... dark , about to kindle at the poor fire the lamp that hangs upon his loom , to help him on his laboring " Have you any other children besides way into the night . these ? " Ragged School ? O yes ! You saw four workers mingling with ...
... dark , about to kindle at the poor fire the lamp that hangs upon his loom , to help him on his laboring " Have you any other children besides way into the night . these ? " Ragged School ? O yes ! You saw four workers mingling with ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
appeared arms asked beauty become better body brought called carried cause close coming continued course dark door effect English entered eyes face fact father fear feel feet French give half hand happy head hear heard heart hope horse hour hundred interest Italy kind lady land leave less light live London look manner matter means ment mind morning nature never night observed officer once passed persons play poor present reached received remarked replied round seemed seen side soon speak spirit stand taken tell thing thought thousand tion took travelling turned voice walk whole wish young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 496 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Pàgina 394 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Pàgina 3 - He now set up a private academy, for which purpose he hired a large house, well situated near his native city. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1736, there is the following advertisement : " At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Pàgina 496 - In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Pàgina 5 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore ; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If, then, the...
Pàgina 251 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Pàgina 248 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pàgina 128 - O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.
Pàgina 231 - The Cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Pàgina 250 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.