The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... received the remainder of the story from the author himself , through the agency of a friend in Europe . The other tales in the present volume are acknowledged by the author of the Diary , Mr. Warren , to be his own per- formances ; it ...
... received the remainder of the story from the author himself , through the agency of a friend in Europe . The other tales in the present volume are acknowledged by the author of the Diary , Mr. Warren , to be his own per- formances ; it ...
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... received a letter this morning from a friend of mine in the country , a young lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon some experienced physician , and obtain , as far as can be , his real ...
... received a letter this morning from a friend of mine in the country , a young lady who is an invalid , and has written to request I would call imme- diately upon some experienced physician , and obtain , as far as can be , his real ...
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... received into the establishment , at a salary of 607. per annum . It was a sad day for poor Elliott when he sold off almost all his college books , and a few other remnants of gay and happy days , gone by probably for ever , for the ...
... received into the establishment , at a salary of 607. per annum . It was a sad day for poor Elliott when he sold off almost all his college books , and a few other remnants of gay and happy days , gone by probably for ever , for the ...
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... received upon this occasion kept him con- fined for a long period to his bed , and for a still longer one to an easy chair in the back drawing room of his spacious mansion near Highbury . As soon as he was able to attend to business ...
... received upon this occasion kept him con- fined for a long period to his bed , and for a still longer one to an easy chair in the back drawing room of his spacious mansion near Highbury . As soon as he was able to attend to business ...
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... lady constantly received him . The right honourable roué was playing , indeed , for too deep a stake an accomplished and elegant girl , with a hundred thousand pounds down , and nearly double that sum 46 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
... lady constantly received him . The right honourable roué was playing , indeed , for too deep a stake an accomplished and elegant girl , with a hundred thousand pounds down , and nearly double that sum 46 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK .
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agitation arms baronet Bill Fowler black puddings Bloomsbury Square bracelet Bullion House Carl Carl's carriage chair coach companion continued counting house dear Dick door dreadful Drysalt Ebury exclaimed eyes father fearful feelings fell fellow felt Forster gasped guineas hand head hear heard heart highwaymen Hillary's honour horse hour hurried husband inquired instantly lady length letter lips looked Lord Scamp Lord Squander lordship ma'am magistrate matter Mincing Lane mind Miss Hillary monk morning never Newfoundland dog night o'clock Old Bailey opened Oxleigh paused pistol poor Elliott present prisoner pugilism replied scarce scene seat seemed servant silence Sir Diggory Sir William Gwynne sitting soon stairs stood stranger suddenly sure tell thee thing thought tion tone Topknot trembling turned uttered voice wagoner walked whispered wife William Fowler words worship wretched
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Seite 349 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Seite 9 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Seite 349 - While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his Dames before: Oft listening how the Hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Seite 349 - Through the high wood echoing shrill : Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Seite 115 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Seite 288 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.