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... persons think it makes them look ridiculous , why may not nature show itself in tragedy , as well as in comedy or farce ... person complained to the Duke of Orleans , then Regent , of the great sum of money which this exiled monarch's ...
... persons think it makes them look ridiculous , why may not nature show itself in tragedy , as well as in comedy or farce ... person complained to the Duke of Orleans , then Regent , of the great sum of money which this exiled monarch's ...
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... person had been brought from the West Indies to Eng- land by a master , whose name we would , if in our power , gladly hand down to the execration of posterity ; and falling into bad health , was abandoned by him as an useless article ...
... person had been brought from the West Indies to Eng- land by a master , whose name we would , if in our power , gladly hand down to the execration of posterity ; and falling into bad health , was abandoned by him as an useless article ...
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... person who has recourse to me , to act the good and proper part . I exhort him , I urge him , and I quit him not till he has yielded to my persua- sions . " On preaching the first Advent sermon at Ver- sailles , Louis XIV . paid the ...
... person who has recourse to me , to act the good and proper part . I exhort him , I urge him , and I quit him not till he has yielded to my persua- sions . " On preaching the first Advent sermon at Ver- sailles , Louis XIV . paid the ...
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... person suspected it , was at length discovered . He was expelled from the school , and I was taken from it . " SELF - TAUGHT MECHANIST . A boy , of the name of John Young , now ( 1819 ) residing at Newton - upon - Ayr , in Scot- land ...
... person suspected it , was at length discovered . He was expelled from the school , and I was taken from it . " SELF - TAUGHT MECHANIST . A boy , of the name of John Young , now ( 1819 ) residing at Newton - upon - Ayr , in Scot- land ...
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... person , but was the means of infusing courage through- out the whole army , who were animated by his example ... persons who redeem the price of their passage by the sale of their servi- ces for a certain term of years . This poor girl ...
... person , but was the means of infusing courage through- out the whole army , who were animated by his example ... persons who redeem the price of their passage by the sale of their servi- ces for a certain term of years . This poor girl ...
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Page 5 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 261 - His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Page 263 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 20 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 5 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Page 20 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 18 - I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation and condition of life.
Page 20 - ... injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 27 - I then spoke to several other dealers, but they all sung the same song, three and six-pence, three and sixpence. This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right ; and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Page 176 - I was very glad to think of anything, rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.