The Merchant's Clerk: & Other TalesHarper & brothers, 1836 - 366 Seiten |
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... sudden impetuosity . No , no ; they would see both of us perish before they would lift a finger to save us , " she added with increasing vehemence of tone and " So now it's all out - my poor , poor hus- band ! " She fell into violent ...
... sudden impetuosity . No , no ; they would see both of us perish before they would lift a finger to save us , " she added with increasing vehemence of tone and " So now it's all out - my poor , poor hus- band ! " She fell into violent ...
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... suddenly but heavily at his child , and then at my approaching figure . 66 Pray walk in , " said he , with a kind of mechanical civility , but evidently not completely roused from sleep . " I - I - am very sorry - the accounts are not ...
... suddenly but heavily at his child , and then at my approaching figure . 66 Pray walk in , " said he , with a kind of mechanical civility , but evidently not completely roused from sleep . " I - I - am very sorry - the accounts are not ...
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... suddenly quit the university , and seek a livelihood by his own exer- tions in London . The event which occasioned this sudden blight to his prospects , was the suicide of his father , Major Elliott ; whose addiction to gambling ...
... suddenly quit the university , and seek a livelihood by his own exer- tions in London . The event which occasioned this sudden blight to his prospects , was the suicide of his father , Major Elliott ; whose addiction to gambling ...
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... suddenly like a spark of fire amid the combustible feel- ings of a most susceptible but subdued heart . It fixed the fate of their lives . The train so long laid had been at length unexpectedly ignited , and the confounded clerk ...
... suddenly like a spark of fire amid the combustible feel- ings of a most susceptible but subdued heart . It fixed the fate of their lives . The train so long laid had been at length unexpectedly ignited , and the confounded clerk ...
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... sudden arrival of three ships with large cargoes of an article of which he had been attempting a monopoly , and in ... suddenly , for her father's voice had recalled her from a strange revery . " My desk , Mary - my desk - dy'e hear ...
... sudden arrival of three ships with large cargoes of an article of which he had been attempting a monopoly , and in ... suddenly , for her father's voice had recalled her from a strange revery . " My desk , Mary - my desk - dy'e hear ...
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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.