Recreations of a recluse [signed F.J.].1870 |
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... wife of an expelled viceroy marvelled to find him a rational being and gentle- man , instead of the ferocious brute that had been pictured to her . Edward Irving , already mistrusted as a crazy heretic , 12 RECREATIONS OF A RECLUSE .
... wife of an expelled viceroy marvelled to find him a rational being and gentle- man , instead of the ferocious brute that had been pictured to her . Edward Irving , already mistrusted as a crazy heretic , 12 RECREATIONS OF A RECLUSE .
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... wife , living himself in systematic adultery , and palm- ing off a copper captain , who strongly resembles a waiter in a casino , for the purpose of getting up a collusive adultery as the cheapest approach to the Divorce Court . " The ...
... wife , living himself in systematic adultery , and palm- ing off a copper captain , who strongly resembles a waiter in a casino , for the purpose of getting up a collusive adultery as the cheapest approach to the Divorce Court . " The ...
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... wife's comfort when , to her inquiry what deed of dreadful note Macbeth was about to do , his answer was that she had best not know till it was done . -Ere , to the black Hecate's summons , The shard - borne beetle , with his drowsy ...
... wife's comfort when , to her inquiry what deed of dreadful note Macbeth was about to do , his answer was that she had best not know till it was done . -Ere , to the black Hecate's summons , The shard - borne beetle , with his drowsy ...
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... wife , Amy Robsart , Mr. Froude deems the conclusion inevitable , if her half - brother ( John Appleyard ) spoke the truth , that although Lord Robert was innocent of a direct participation in the crime , the unhappy lady was sacrificed ...
... wife , Amy Robsart , Mr. Froude deems the conclusion inevitable , if her half - brother ( John Appleyard ) spoke the truth , that although Lord Robert was innocent of a direct participation in the crime , the unhappy lady was sacrificed ...
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... wife , Aunt Rose , can't refrain from a slap at her old man for telling the lady about his being up with Pete all night , * " when de Lord knows you laid here snoring fit to tar de roof off . . . . . I rally believe that you've told dem ...
... wife , Aunt Rose , can't refrain from a slap at her old man for telling the lady about his being up with Pete all night , * " when de Lord knows you laid here snoring fit to tar de roof off . . . . . I rally believe that you've told dem ...
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Page 40 - 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 243 - 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 295 - 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 147 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 151 - He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto, so shalt thou see the Gate; at which when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.
Page 257 - Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 315 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 161 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Page 41 - 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 143 - 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.