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... pass out of the rectory cellars , and with it the last token of that bitterly regretted past . I have no doubt that Hubert Arundel felt the sting of his only sister's neglect , as only a poor and proud man can feel such an insult ; but ...
... pass out of the rectory cellars , and with it the last token of that bitterly regretted past . I have no doubt that Hubert Arundel felt the sting of his only sister's neglect , as only a poor and proud man can feel such an insult ; but ...
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... pass that on the 29th of December , in the year 1838 , the story of Edward Arundel's life began in a stage - box at Drury Lane Theatre . The box had been sent to Mrs. Mostyn by the fashionable editor of a fashionable newspaper ; but ...
... pass that on the 29th of December , in the year 1838 , the story of Edward Arundel's life began in a stage - box at Drury Lane Theatre . The box had been sent to Mrs. Mostyn by the fashionable editor of a fashionable newspaper ; but ...
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... pass through a Window , the lower part of Wood , so that it opens level with the floor of the Scaffold , which is constructed on the outside , opposite the Waag , or Weigh House . As associate of one of the Magistrates , I often visited ...
... pass through a Window , the lower part of Wood , so that it opens level with the floor of the Scaffold , which is constructed on the outside , opposite the Waag , or Weigh House . As associate of one of the Magistrates , I often visited ...
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... pass that the Spice Ships consigned to us were all wrecked on the High Seas and never insured ; that the Batavian Merchants , to whom we advanced money on their Consignments , all failed dismally ; that every Speculation we entered into ...
... pass that the Spice Ships consigned to us were all wrecked on the High Seas and never insured ; that the Batavian Merchants , to whom we advanced money on their Consignments , all failed dismally ; that every Speculation we entered into ...
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... pass than I have taken to relate ; but as quick as thought I rushed on to the Stage , seized hold of the little Dancing - girl , tripped her up , and rolled her over and over on the Boards , I encompass- ing her , till the flames were ...
... pass than I have taken to relate ; but as quick as thought I rushed on to the Stage , seized hold of the little Dancing - girl , tripped her up , and rolled her over and over on the Boards , I encompass- ing her , till the flames were ...
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Page 381 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 344 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, " To be exalted thus;" " Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
Page 581 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
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Page 581 - Sermons, with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them ? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
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Page 79 - And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Such are not your decrees ; but so designed, The sanction leaves a lasting peace behind, Like your own soul serene, a pattern of your mind.
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Page 80 - ... years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ; The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made his work, for man to mend. The tree of knowledge, once in Eden placed, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste : Oh, had our grandsire walk'd without his wife, He first had sought the better plant of life ! Now both are lost : yet, wandering in the dark, Physicians, for the tree, have found the bark : They, labouring for relief of...
Page 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.