Old Leaves: Gathered from Household WordsHarper & brothers, 1860 - 467 pàgines |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Alfreton appeared asked Bank of England Bank-note Bevil Bovington brought Calder called carriage clerk colours Company corner Crample Crookston Dodo door Eusta exclaimed eyes face fish five forgery Fortnum and Mason four gentleman George Dornley glass hand head Hockle horse hour hundred Inspector John Clare letters live London look Lord Matthew Marshall miles millions minutes Miss Bliss months morning never newspapers night Nobble notes Nottingham o'clock Old Lady Old Lady's paper passed pawnbroking Paxton person plate Post-office pounds sterling present Prince prisoner railway replied round Royal Royal George Rrobrecht Serene Highness servant shillings Smithy Houses sort Spitalfields Squire station thousand pounds tion took turned twenty Uncle Victoria Regia Vollum watch whole wife window woman words young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 194 - After the play the best company generally go to Tom's and Will's coffee-houses near adjoining, where there is playing at picket and the best of conversation till midnight. Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars sitting familiarly, and talking with the same freedom, as if they had left their quality and degrees of distance at home ; and a stranger tastes with pleasure the universal liberty of speech of the English nation.
Pàgina 264 - Here are chaste wives, pure lives; here people pay But what they please; and if that things be dear, 'Tis only that they love to throw away Their cash, to show how much they have a year. Here laws are all inviolate; none lay Traps for the traveller; every highway's clear; Here — " he was interrupted by a knife, With — "Damn your eyes!
Pàgina 148 - Jeanie, has actually left behind him the best portion of his bagpipes ! ! ! Some little time ago the Superintendent, on breaking open, previous to a general sale, a locked leather hat-box, which had lain in this dungeon two years, found in it, under the hat...
Pàgina 163 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Pàgina 150 - I felt lu as a botanist, and felt myself rewarded : a gigantic leaf from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim ; of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water. Quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink. The smooth water was covered with the blossoms, and as I rowed from one to the other I always observed something new to admire.
Pàgina 71 - steward!" from all parts of the room — the word "waiter" is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or merchant's clerk a few months before. The dishes look very small as they are placed on the table, but they are skilfully cooked and very palatable to men that have ridden in from the diggings. The appetite one acquires in California is something remarkable. For two months after my arrival, my sensations were like those of a famished wolf.
Pàgina 264 - Here laws are all inviolate; none lay Traps for the traveller; every highway's clear; Here' — he was interrupted by a knife, With 'Damn your eyes! your money or your life!
Pàgina 197 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles conferred by a foreign Power, has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the Throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them of my resolution to maintain the rights of my Grown, and the independence of the nation against all encroachment, from whatever quarter it may proceed.
Pàgina 66 - The restless, feverish tide of life in that little spot, and the thought that what I then saw and was yet to see will hereafter fill one of the most marvellous pages of all history, rendered it singularly impressive. The feeling was not decreased on talking that evening with some of the old residents, (that is, of six months' standing,) and hearing their several experiences.
Pàgina 164 - ... the wind : which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light,...