The poet at the breakfast table, January to JuneJ. Camden Hotten, 1872 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acrostics afraid artist Benjamin better boarders breath BRET HARTE Bunker Hill Monument cloth colour dead deal double star doubt earth ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN everything eyes feel fellow friends gilt give half hand Haouse hard hear heart HEATHEN CHINEE heaven human humour JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN kind Lady landlady laugh leave listen literary living look MARK TWAIN mean mind ministers Mount Athos nature neighbour never Old Master once paper perhaps person personage PICCADILLY piece pleasant poem poet poor popgun pretty question reader Register of Deeds remember round Scarabee Scheherazade seems seen side Simeon Stylites Sir NOEL PATON smile sometimes soul stars stick story suppose talk tell thing thou thought tion told verse walking woman wonder words write Young Astronomer young Doctor Young Girl
Pasajes populares
Página 202 - Twentyseven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 56 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Página 118 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Página 141 - Convinced, she now contracts her vast design, And all her triumphs shrink into a coin. A narrow ORB each crowded conquest keeps, Beneath her palm here sad Judea weeps.
Página 117 - With lowliness majestic from her seat, And grace that won who saw to wish her stay, Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flowers, To visit how they prospered, bud and bloom, Her nursery ; they at her coming sprung, And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
Página 141 - ... perished, and their place no more ! Convinced, she now contracts her vast design, And all her triumphs shrink into a coin. A narrow orb each crowded conquest keeps, Beneath her palm here sad...
Página 83 - ... em at once, and then a grand clatter and scramble and string of jumps, up and down, back and forward, one hand over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice more than like anything I call music. I like to hear a woman sing, and I like to hear a fiddle sing, but these noises they hammer out of their wood and ivory anvils — don't talk to me, I know the difference between a bullfrog and a woodthrush...
Página 202 - Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal!
Página 41 - One of the greatest pleasures of childhood is found in the mysteries which it hides from the scepticism of the elders, and works up into small mythologies of its own.
Página 159 - em if they want to, and they can't very well before ministers. I don't care whether they want to swear or not, they don't want to be on their good behavior. Besides, the minister has a little smack of the sexton about him ; he comes when people are in extremis...