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... expressions of due acknowledgment he declined that promotion , request- ing leave to remain as a volunteer , until he should earn by his services the honour of being ranked with commissioned officers . He and his wife had all the ...
... expressions of due acknowledgment he declined that promotion , request- ing leave to remain as a volunteer , until he should earn by his services the honour of being ranked with commissioned officers . He and his wife had all the ...
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out of a crusted dish in the centre . On his expressing his heart's desire , Mrs. Waffle kindly asked , if any other lady or gentleman chose to taste the pigeon - pie ; and no affirmative answer being received , Mr. Basil fever . In ...
out of a crusted dish in the centre . On his expressing his heart's desire , Mrs. Waffle kindly asked , if any other lady or gentleman chose to taste the pigeon - pie ; and no affirmative answer being received , Mr. Basil fever . In ...
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... expression , and the latter in a playful polacca style , with abundance of pretty attractive ideas . Mr. M. however , has evidently drawn freely upon Rossini , at least as to manner . The " minorizing " his ca- dences for instance , and ...
... expression , and the latter in a playful polacca style , with abundance of pretty attractive ideas . Mr. M. however , has evidently drawn freely upon Rossini , at least as to manner . The " minorizing " his ca- dences for instance , and ...
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... expressions . Some thing . sit in the streets with their whole fa- milies , father , mother , and half a do- zen naked children of their own or hired for the purpose , and sing forth their claims upon your charity in most harmonious ...
... expressions . Some thing . sit in the streets with their whole fa- milies , father , mother , and half a do- zen naked children of their own or hired for the purpose , and sing forth their claims upon your charity in most harmonious ...
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... expression of counte- . Her figure was tall and slim , her manners lady - like , a little after the old school , and her conversation was both amusing and instructive , at times perhaps somewhat redundant . When about nineteen years of ...
... expression of counte- . Her figure was tall and slim , her manners lady - like , a little after the old school , and her conversation was both amusing and instructive , at times perhaps somewhat redundant . When about nineteen years of ...
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Page 340 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 355 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 124 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Page 234 - ... management or precaution, to the shoulders of the too merciful executioner. The scene immediately became more interesting. The beadle could by no means be prevailed upon to strike hard, which provoked the constable to strike harder ; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of...
Page 308 - DUTIES ; Or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their Households, and the Regulation of their Conduct in the various Relations and Duties of Married Life. By Mrs. W. PARKES.
Page 142 - Irish sailor, who was poor and much distressed for clothes and common necessaries. Hickey compassionating his poverty, and finding he was his countryman, relieved his wants, and an intimacy commenced between them. They agreed to go to Ireland together; and it was remarked on their passage that Caulfield...
Page 313 - ... by William Penn, proprietary and governor of the province of Pennsylvania and territories thereof, viz.
Page 223 - Sir Charles Lee, by his first lady, had only one daughter, of which she died in childbirth ; and when she died, her sister, the lady Everard, desired to have the education of the child ; and she was by her very well educated till she was marriageable ; and a match was concluded for her with sir William Perkins, but was then prevented in an extraordinary manner. Upon a Thursday night, she thinking she saw...
Page 295 - Her sister Furies fly her hideous face; So frightful are the forms the monster takes, So fierce the hissings of her speckled snakes. Her Juno finds, and thus inflames her spite: "O virgin daughter of eternal night, Give me this once thy labour, to sustain My right, and execute my just disdain.
Page 234 - ... the verse. She then began in a kind of whining recitative, but as she proceeded and as the composition required it, her voice assumed a variety of deep and fine tones, and the energy with which many passages were delivered, proved her perfect comprehension and strong feeling of the subject, but her eyes always continued shut, perhaps to prevent interruption to her thoughts, or her attention being engaged by any surrounding object.