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In a voice half choked with agitation , he implored her to discard her care , and wait in calmness till the veil should be discovered . The beautiful girl turned round at the expostulation ; and as she beheld the fine form of Brenno ...
In a voice half choked with agitation , he implored her to discard her care , and wait in calmness till the veil should be discovered . The beautiful girl turned round at the expostulation ; and as she beheld the fine form of Brenno ...
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Going to the theatre on a very crowded night , waiting an hour in the pit passage , half jammed to death , receiving a dreadful kick on the ankle ; in making a desperate effort to stoop down to rub it , finding your hand in the coat ...
Going to the theatre on a very crowded night , waiting an hour in the pit passage , half jammed to death , receiving a dreadful kick on the ankle ; in making a desperate effort to stoop down to rub it , finding your hand in the coat ...
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turning its trip into a strut , like a Lilliputian grenadier , trying to knit its brow , and flourishing its little falchion at an overgrown victim of its vengeance , who was bending half way down , to hear more distinctly the penny ...
turning its trip into a strut , like a Lilliputian grenadier , trying to knit its brow , and flourishing its little falchion at an overgrown victim of its vengeance , who was bending half way down , to hear more distinctly the penny ...
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... and then none of her attendants can speak plain ; sometimes she chooses to totter as she walks , and then they are seized with sudden lameness ; accordingly as she appears half undressed , or veiled from head to foot , her subjects ...
... and then none of her attendants can speak plain ; sometimes she chooses to totter as she walks , and then they are seized with sudden lameness ; accordingly as she appears half undressed , or veiled from head to foot , her subjects ...
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They had been accustomed to a clammy , warming , soporific compound , and they did not comprehend why a gentleman's son should come into the place and introduce a new liquor , not half so comforting and drowsy as the old .
They had been accustomed to a clammy , warming , soporific compound , and they did not comprehend why a gentleman's son should come into the place and introduce a new liquor , not half so comforting and drowsy as the old .
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Сторінка 327 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
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| Назва | The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History, Biography, Poetry, and Romance; Jeux D'esprit, Traditionary Relics, and Essays, with Translations from Approved Authors, Том 1 The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History, Biography, Poetry, and Romance; Jeux D'esprit, Traditionary Relics, and Essays, with Translations from Approved Authors, William Oxberry Том 1 з серії The flowers of literature, William Henry Oxberry |
| Автор | William Oxberry |
| Видання | 2 |
| Видавець | T. Tegg, 1824 |
| Оригінал із | Гарвардський університет |
| Оцифровано | 16 лис. 2007 |
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