Evenings away from home, by Ascott R. Hope |
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Сторінка 349 - PATH. FOUR SONS OF ALBION. A GIRL'S STORY. AN ADVENTURER AT THE ANTIPODES. AN ADVENTURER AT HOME. " Mr. Hope is one of the best of living writers of boys' books, and we do not think we overestimate the merits of the book before us if we say it is one of his best. The idea is a happy one ..... The result is altogether as successful as the idea is happy."— Birmingham Dally Poit.
Сторінка 25 - One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old: I led him to a lonely field; The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold!
Сторінка 314 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Сторінка 142 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives— Followed the Piper for their lives.
Сторінка 264 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
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