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... appeared to possess particular interest for the public in this coun- try . The American Anecdotes have been drawn from a great variety of sources , and will be found to relate to the most interesting characters , events , and scenes of ...
... appeared to possess particular interest for the public in this coun- try . The American Anecdotes have been drawn from a great variety of sources , and will be found to relate to the most interesting characters , events , and scenes of ...
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... appearance of a man of honor ; you are go- ing to Brussels , where you will see M. de Lava- lette ; deliver him these two ... appeared agitated , and instead of going to the play , went home , and sent his friend the following letter ...
... appearance of a man of honor ; you are go- ing to Brussels , where you will see M. de Lava- lette ; deliver him these two ... appeared agitated , and instead of going to the play , went home , and sent his friend the following letter ...
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... appeared to have felt one convulsive emotion ; and when it was over , it was some time before Mr. Fox could ob- tain a hearing . Amidst the assemblage of concurring praises which this speech excited , none was more re- markable than the ...
... appeared to have felt one convulsive emotion ; and when it was over , it was some time before Mr. Fox could ob- tain a hearing . Amidst the assemblage of concurring praises which this speech excited , none was more re- markable than the ...
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... appeared to them extremely difficult ; young Hospital ventured to say that he believed he could solve it . The company were surprised at what appeared to them presumption in a boy of fifteen , for he was then no more ; and one of them ...
... appeared to them extremely difficult ; young Hospital ventured to say that he believed he could solve it . The company were surprised at what appeared to them presumption in a boy of fifteen , for he was then no more ; and one of them ...
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... appeared in the pantomime of Harlequin Gulliver , performing the character of Richard III . , in which she had been so successful at the rival house . Some parts of her performance in this character were such as deserve a more than ...
... appeared in the pantomime of Harlequin Gulliver , performing the character of Richard III . , in which she had been so successful at the rival house . Some parts of her performance in this character were such as deserve a more than ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.