Marylebone and St. Pancras: Their History, Celebrities, Buildings, and Instituitions

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Truslove & Shirley, 1890 - 235 pàgines

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Pàgina 95 - For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie : though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Pàgina 194 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Pàgina 72 - The executioner took both the hat and wig off at the same time. Why he put on his wig again I do not know, but he did, and the Doctor took off his wig a second time, and then tied on a night-cap which did not fit him ; but whether he stretched that, or took another, I could not perceive. He then put on his night-cap himself, and upon his taking it he certainly had a smile on his countenance, and very soon afterwards there was an end of all his hopes and fears on this side the grave.
Pàgina 73 - ... same time. Why he put on his wig again I do not know, but he did, and the Doctor took off his wig a second time, and then tied on a night-cap which did not fit him ; but whether he stretched that, or took another, I could not perceive. He then put on his night-cap himself, and upon his taking it he certainly had a smile on his countenance, and very soon afterwards there was an end of all his hopes and fears on this side the grave. He never moved from the place he first took in the cart ; seemed...
Pàgina 194 - And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Pàgina 98 - let us sit down and listen to this piece ; I want to know your opinion of it.' Down they sat ; and after some time the old parson, turning to his companion, said, ' It is not worth listening to— it's very poor stuff.' ' You are right, Mr. Fountayne/ said Handel, ( it is very poor stuff; I thought so myself when I had finished it.
Pàgina 157 - You qualify for a single visit by paying sixpence, and a large glass tumbler, full of warm water, is handed to you. As a stranger, you are told, that ' St. Chad's Well was famous at one time.' "Should you be inquisitive, the dame will instruct you, with an earnest eye, that ' people are not what they were,' ' things are not as they used to be,' and she 'can't tell what'll happen next.
Pàgina 72 - His hat was flapped all around, and pulled over his eyes, which were never directed to any object around, nor even raised, except now and then lifted up in the course of his prayers. He came in a coach, and a very heavy shower of rain fell just upon his entering the cart, and another just at his putting on his nightcap.
Pàgina 100 - Falstaff and Mrs Quickly — humour, pathos, terror, blood, and murder, met one at every look! I expected the floor to give way — I fancied Fuseli himself to be a giant. I heard his footsteps and saw a little bony hand slide round the edge of the door, followed by a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressinggown tied round his waist with a piece of rope and upon his head the bottom of Mrs Fuseli's work-basket.
Pàgina 194 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

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