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Abbott acquainted agreeable American answer appearance Aristabulus asked Assheton baronet beautiful believe better Bloomfield Bragg called Captain Ducie Captain Truck certainly character child commodore composite order confess cousin Jack cried dare say dear Dodge England English Europe Eve Effingham Eve's exclaimed eyes fancy father favor feel felt gentleman Grace Hajji hand happy Hawker hear heard heart hope Howel Hudson Square inquired John Effing John Effingham knew lake laughing least look Lucius Junius Brutus ma'am Mademoiselle Viefville manner marriage married matter means mind Miss Effingham Miss Eve Miss Ring Miss Van Cortlandt mother nature never notions observed opinion passed person Pindar respect returned scarcely seen sentiment Sir George Templemore smile society soon speak surprise taste Templeton things thought tion town true truth village whole party Wigwam wish woman young lady
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Pàgina 300 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Pàgina 215 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make j it felony, to drink small beer: all the realm shall : be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Pàgina 137 - I know the shaggy hills about, The meadows smooth and wide, The plains, that, toward the southern sky, Fenced east and west by mountains lie. A white man, gazing on the scene, Would say a lovely spot was here, And praise the lawns...
Pàgina 15 - I think you are mistaken, Miss Effingham, for the public sentiment, just now, runs almost exclusively and popularly into the Grecian school. We build little besides temples for our churches, our banks, our taverns, our court-houses, and our dwellings. A friend of mine has just built a brewery on the model of the Temple of the Winds.
Pàgina 98 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
Pàgina 122 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Pàgina 260 - All that of good and fair Has gone into thy womb from earliest time, Shall then come forth to wear The glory and the beauty of its prime.
Pàgina 118 - The whole country is in such a constant state of mutation, that I can only liken it to the game of children, in which, as one quits his corner, another runs into it, and he that finds no corner to get into, is the laughing-stock of the others.
Pàgina 227 - Her breast was a brave palace, a broad street. Where all heroic, ample thoughts did meet, Where nature such a tenement had ta'en, That other souls, to hers, dwelt in a lane.
Pàgina 337 - This may be true, and yet one can only regret that, in a case where so much depends on example, the tone of our people was not more assimilated to their facts. I do not know whether you were struck with the same peculiarity, but, whenever I felt in the mood to hear high monarchical and aristocratical doctrines blindly promulgated, I used to go to the nearest American Legation.