Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, 第 5 巻1812 |
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... acquainted with the great , and kept no better com- pany than the neighbouring villagers ; but having a desire of seeing the world , they forsook their com- panions and habitation , and determined to travel . Labour went soberly along ...
... acquainted with the great , and kept no better com- pany than the neighbouring villagers ; but having a desire of seeing the world , they forsook their com- panions and habitation , and determined to travel . Labour went soberly along ...
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... acquainted with her meritorious behaviour , it was now her chief employment to excite in them an ambition of imi- tating their parent's excellence , so as to embalm and preserve his memory in the honourable repu- tation of his children ...
... acquainted with her meritorious behaviour , it was now her chief employment to excite in them an ambition of imi- tating their parent's excellence , so as to embalm and preserve his memory in the honourable repu- tation of his children ...
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... acquainted with Westminster- school knows , that there is a curtain which used to be drawn across the room , to separate the upper school from the lower . A youth happened , by some mischance , to tear the above - mentioned curtain ...
... acquainted with Westminster- school knows , that there is a curtain which used to be drawn across the room , to separate the upper school from the lower . A youth happened , by some mischance , to tear the above - mentioned curtain ...
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... acquaintance . Because it is deep , ' replied the man , and I can neither dive nor swim . But will you undertake this kind office for me , and I will reward you with thirty pieces of silver ? The peasant accepted the offer with ...
... acquaintance . Because it is deep , ' replied the man , and I can neither dive nor swim . But will you undertake this kind office for me , and I will reward you with thirty pieces of silver ? The peasant accepted the offer with ...
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... acquainted him with his case , and in the most pathetic manner implored concealment . The Moor listened to him with compassion , and generously promised his assistance . He then locked him in a summer - house , and left him , with an ...
... acquainted him with his case , and in the most pathetic manner implored concealment . The Moor listened to him with compassion , and generously promised his assistance . He then locked him in a summer - house , and left him , with an ...
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acquaintance Alcander Almamoulin appeared Bathos beauty began called cockchafer corporal daugh daughter dear delight Dendermond door drachmas Elysium Eugenius eyes father fear fell five crowns followed fortune gave gentleman give half hand happy head heard heart honour hope Julius Pollux Jupiter knew lady light lived looked maid manner Maria marriage master mighty good kind mighty good sort mind morning nature never night observed occasion Oxus pain passed person play pleased pleasure poor Pyrrhus replied Rhadamanthus Roche ROGER DE COVERLEY says Scrib seemed Seged servant side Sir Bertrand sir Roger soon stood suffered sure tears tell thee thing thought tion told took town Trim turned uncle Toby virtue vizier walk whole wish word Yorick young youth
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214 ページ - Pyrrhus, the knight told me that he did not believe the king of France himself had a better strut. I was indeed very attentive to my old friend's remarks, because I looked upon them as a piece of natural criticism, and was well pleased to hear him, at the conclusion of almost every scene, telling me that he could not imagine how the play would end. One while he appeared much concerned for Andromache ; and, a little while after, as much for Hermione ; and was extremely puzzled to think what would...
9 ページ - In these amusements the hours passed away uncounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel. He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past.
114 ページ - em, which I had just purchased, and gave him one ; and, at this moment that I am telling it, my heart smites me that there was more of pleasantry in the conceit of seeing how an ass would eat a macaroon, than of benevolence in giving him one, which presided in the act. When the ass had eaten his macaroon, I pressed him to come in.
105 ページ - ... was something in his looks, and voice, and manner, superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him : so that before...
106 ページ - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, — rallied back, — the film forsook his eyes for a moment ; — he looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face ; — then cast a look upon his boy ; — and that ligament, fine as it was — was never broken ! Nature instantly ebb'd again; — the film returned to its place ; — the pulse fluttered ; — stopped ; — went on,— throbbed, — stopped again; —...
172 ページ - We were to drag up oceans of gold from the bottom of the sea ; we were to supply all Europe with herrings upon our own terms. At present we hear no more of all this. We have fished up very little gold that I can learn ; nor do we furnish the world with herrings as was expected.
102 ページ - I wish, said my uncle Toby, with a deep sigh, — I wish, Trim, I was asleep. Your honour, replied the corporal, is too much concerned; — shall I pour your honour out a glass of sack to your pipe? Do, Trim, said my uncle Toby.
99 ページ - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night,' said the landlady, ' very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it.' 'Are you sure of it 3 ' replied the curate. 'A soldier, an
216 ページ - Roger hearing a cluster of them praise Orestes, struck in with them, and told them, that he thought his friend Pylades was a very sensible man. As they were afterwards applauding Pyrrh'us, Sir Roger put in a second time, "And let me tell you, (says he,) though he speaks but little, I like the old fellow in whiskers as well as any of them.
8 ページ - Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground. This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might soothe or divert him. ' He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade...