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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Pàgina 127 - The wound was exposed to the view of all who could delight in it, and sewed up on the stage. The surly second of Miller declared at this time, that he would that day fortnight fight Mr. Buck at the same weapons, declaring himself the master of the renowned...
Pàgina 74 - It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought) in any part of his rational age.
Pàgina 15 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Pàgina 29 - Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song, Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung, Whence flow these wishes for the common good, By feeling hearts alone best understood, I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate Was snatch'd from Afric's fancy'd happy seat: What pangs excruciating must molest, What sorrows labour in my parent's breast?
Pàgina 102 - ... worth when new five pounds. His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer...
Pàgina 131 - The needy man who has known better days, One whom distress has spited at the world, Is he whom tempting fiends would pitch upon To do such deeds as make the prosperous men Lift up their hands and wonder who could do them.
Pàgina 126 - Miller had an audacious look, that took the eye; Buck, a perfect composure, that engaged the judgment. Buck came on in a plain coat, and kept all his air till the instant of engaging; at which time he undressed to his shirt, his arm adorned with a bandage of red ribbon.
Pàgina 94 - Rucar*), now in my. custody and most valuable. My aunt played and sung well, and had a great deal of life and humour, but no turn to business ; though my mother had the same qualifications, and liked it as well as she did, she was forced to drudge ; and many jokes used to pass betwixt the sisters about their different occupations...
Pàgina 95 - I have now a book of songs of her writing when there, many of them interrupted, half writ, some broke off in the middle of a sentence ; she had no less a turn for mirth and society than any of the family when she could come at it without neglecting what she thought more necessary.