Recreations of a Recluse, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1870 |
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... seemed impossible that the handsome boy in the prisoner's dock could be the culprit whose name had been for three years connected with the boldest and bloodiest acts of piracy . The French in Lewis the Twelfth's time had been taught to ...
... seemed impossible that the handsome boy in the prisoner's dock could be the culprit whose name had been for three years connected with the boldest and bloodiest acts of piracy . The French in Lewis the Twelfth's time had been taught to ...
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... seemed to fall from his eyes , when the man who had been the idol of his imagination for years , stood before him , a round ungraceful figure , with a most unpoetically protuberant stomach . " " I mentally exclaimed , as I peeped at his ...
... seemed to fall from his eyes , when the man who had been the idol of his imagination for years , stood before him , a round ungraceful figure , with a most unpoetically protuberant stomach . " " I mentally exclaimed , as I peeped at his ...
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... seemed to him interminable . The door at last opened , a valet came in , and the name of " Robespierre , " writes our soldier- statesman , “ thrilled through every fibre ; but instead of the frowning giant to which my fancy had in ...
... seemed to him interminable . The door at last opened , a valet came in , and the name of " Robespierre , " writes our soldier- statesman , “ thrilled through every fibre ; but instead of the frowning giant to which my fancy had in ...
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... seemed , at best , made to figure on a grand jury . John Philpot Curran , again , another of the author of " Salathiel's " brilliant fellow - countrymen : " Curran was the last man to be judged of by appearances . Nature had been ...
... seemed , at best , made to figure on a grand jury . John Philpot Curran , again , another of the author of " Salathiel's " brilliant fellow - countrymen : " Curran was the last man to be judged of by appearances . Nature had been ...
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... seemed to him expedient . " He took the opposite course from his comrade Almagro , who , it was observed , generally said ' Yes , ' but too often failed to keep his promise . " Well may Archdeacon Coxe signalise the " singular courtesy ...
... seemed to him expedient . " He took the opposite course from his comrade Almagro , who , it was observed , generally said ' Yes , ' but too often failed to keep his promise . " Well may Archdeacon Coxe signalise the " singular courtesy ...
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Page 227 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 34 - Go, hang yourselves all ! you are idle, shallow things : I am not of your element : you shall know more hereafter. [Exit. Sir To. Is't possible ? Fab. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Page 277 - Thou hast nor youth, nor age ; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ; and when thou art old, and rich, Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this, That bears the name of life? Yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even.
Page 241 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 50 - ll bet you millions, milliards — It all sprung from a harmless game at billiards. ci. 'T is strange — but true ; for truth is always strange ; Stranger than fiction : if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange ; How differently the world would men behold ! How oft would vice and virtue places change ! The new world would be nothing to the old, If some Columbus of the moral seas Would show mankind their souls
Page 35 - How now, Horatio? you tremble and look pale; Is not this something more than fantasy? What think you on 't? Hor. Before my God, I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes.
Page 76 - But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 129 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 135 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves...
Page 246 - ... Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river : No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver ; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver ; But not by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever.