The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... Head - dresses , 249 • 253 257 262 267 99 The Chief Point of Honour in Men and Women - Duel- ling , • • · 271 101 Uncertainty of Fame - Specimen of a History of the Reign of Anne L. , 102. Exercise of the Fan , • 275 279 • 105. Will ...
... Head - dresses , 249 • 253 257 262 267 99 The Chief Point of Honour in Men and Women - Duel- ling , • • · 271 101 Uncertainty of Fame - Specimen of a History of the Reign of Anne L. , 102. Exercise of the Fan , • 275 279 • 105. Will ...
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... head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Some- A half century's contention respecting the exact admeasurement of the Great ...
... head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Some- A half century's contention respecting the exact admeasurement of the Great ...
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... head - quarters . It stood at the end of Pall Mall - of which it commanded a perspective view - near to , if not upon , the site of what is now No. 87 St. James's - street , and close to Ozinda's chocolate house . These were the great ...
... head - quarters . It stood at the end of Pall Mall - of which it commanded a perspective view - near to , if not upon , the site of what is now No. 87 St. James's - street , and close to Ozinda's chocolate house . These were the great ...
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... head of a character , I ex- amine every syllable , every letter of it , that it may not bear any resem- blance to one that is real . " In another place : " I would not make my self merry with a piece of pasteboard that is invested with ...
... head of a character , I ex- amine every syllable , every letter of it , that it may not bear any resem- blance to one that is real . " In another place : " I would not make my self merry with a piece of pasteboard that is invested with ...
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... head of his troop in the park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a ...
... head of his troop in the park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a ...
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Сторінка 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Сторінка 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.