The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Ausgaben 1-5Book Lover, 1900 |
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... mind to the point of making him forget his judge and the fate that threatened him , was learning that in London there had been discovered a second copy of this book , for the pos- session of which he had not hesitated to commit a murder ...
... mind to the point of making him forget his judge and the fate that threatened him , was learning that in London there had been discovered a second copy of this book , for the pos- session of which he had not hesitated to commit a murder ...
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... mind . To drag these enorn ous and heavy quartos about the streets , thinks he , this poor devil must be hard up . Moreover , with a Littre there is no risk , it will always sell . " I cannot give you more than thirty francs , " says he ...
... mind . To drag these enorn ous and heavy quartos about the streets , thinks he , this poor devil must be hard up . Moreover , with a Littre there is no risk , it will always sell . " I cannot give you more than thirty francs , " says he ...
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... mind as she wrote the following : " Turning over the pages of Punch , and looking at the familiar titles and histories and pictures , the circumstances under which all these were de- vised come vaguely back to my mind again . Suns long ...
... mind as she wrote the following : " Turning over the pages of Punch , and looking at the familiar titles and histories and pictures , the circumstances under which all these were de- vised come vaguely back to my mind again . Suns long ...
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... mind began to wander off to his work . A sentence from her brought him back suddenly . " You must know , sir , " she was saying , " that my father is very proud of his blood . He is a Hall of Stratford -- a descendant of Shakespeare ...
... mind began to wander off to his work . A sentence from her brought him back suddenly . " You must know , sir , " she was saying , " that my father is very proud of his blood . He is a Hall of Stratford -- a descendant of Shakespeare ...
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... mind . To him " Treasure Island " is the better story because his lopsided moral interest attaches to the good boys and he hates the bad boys with fervor . For me , I would rather be the descendant of an active , industrious , boarding ...
... mind . To him " Treasure Island " is the better story because his lopsided moral interest attaches to the good boys and he hates the bad boys with fervor . For me , I would rather be the descendant of an active , industrious , boarding ...
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Seite 16 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Seite 191 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Seite 451 - ... noise Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say 'The winds are now devising work for me!
Seite 247 - The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf whereinto England is like to be swallowed by another French marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banes by letting her Majestie see the sin and punishment thereof (1579).
Seite 67 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Seite 84 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Seite 380 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Seite 192 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 44 - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who, on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : " Here lies one whose name was writ in water...
Seite 189 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.