Once a WeekEneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans., 1872 |
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... door is in an out - of - the - way place it re- quires an effort to reach . Read the legend in dingy , gilt relief letters over the door - they were much stared at when first put up , being a novelty from London - MELLISHIP , MOR- TIBOY ...
... door is in an out - of - the - way place it re- quires an effort to reach . Read the legend in dingy , gilt relief letters over the door - they were much stared at when first put up , being a novelty from London - MELLISHIP , MOR- TIBOY ...
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... door pushed to . But at the house in Derngate , the shutters next the door on either side are closed , and two mutes , with vulgar faces and crape- covered broomsticks , stand on the steps . Susan Mortiboy is dead , and is about to be ...
... door pushed to . But at the house in Derngate , the shutters next the door on either side are closed , and two mutes , with vulgar faces and crape- covered broomsticks , stand on the steps . Susan Mortiboy is dead , and is about to be ...
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... door were frozen . No stress of weather must shake a mute's decorum . So their teeth chattered , and their hands and feet were numbed dead . A decent servant maid came in , and whis- pered something in the ear of Mrs. Heath- cote . She ...
... door were frozen . No stress of weather must shake a mute's decorum . So their teeth chattered , and their hands and feet were numbed dead . A decent servant maid came in , and whis- pered something in the ear of Mrs. Heath- cote . She ...
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... door threw a good deal of light into the room . He blew out his last candle . " If I'm only thinking - and , goodness knows , I've plenty to think of - I can think quite as well without a candle . Besides , this room is always light ...
... door threw a good deal of light into the room . He blew out his last candle . " If I'm only thinking - and , goodness knows , I've plenty to think of - I can think quite as well without a candle . Besides , this room is always light ...
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... door , and went on his way . His house opened on the street . Across the street was a paddock . The field belonged to him . He had the key , and let himself in . This close was a little gold mine to him . It was the arena on which all ...
... door , and went on his way . His house opened on the street . Across the street was a paddock . The field belonged to him . He had the key , and let himself in . This close was a little gold mine to him . It was the arena on which all ...
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Page 504 - ... is won. The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 502 - The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river...
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Page 166 - There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails; If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?
Page 584 - Not mine, not mine (O muse forbid) the boon Of borrowed notes, the mock-bird's modish tune, The jingling medley of purloined conceits, Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats ; Where all the airs of patchwork pastoral chime To drown the ears in Tennysonian rhyme ! * » * » * Let school-miss Alfred vent her chaste delight On ' darling little rooms so warm and bright ; ' Chaunt ' I'm aweary ' in infectious strain, And catch her
Page 584 - WE know him, out of Shakespeare's art, And those fine curses which he spoke ; The old Timon, with his noble heart, That, strongly loathing, greatly broke. So died the Old : here comes the New. Regard him : a familiar face : I thought we knew him : What, it's you, The padded man — that wears the stays — Who killed the girls and thrilled the boys With dandy pathos when you wrote ! A Lion, you, that made a noise, And shook a mane en papillotes.
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