The Adventures of Count D'Orveau: A Romance ...G.M. & W. Snider, 1832 - 180 էջ |
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... living for ever . The detail of these secrets I omit ; into that I am forbidden to en- ter . My design in writing is not to get money , as you will readily admit , for you know I have plenty of that ; nor is it to teach the art of which ...
... living for ever . The detail of these secrets I omit ; into that I am forbidden to en- ter . My design in writing is not to get money , as you will readily admit , for you know I have plenty of that ; nor is it to teach the art of which ...
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... living in a style that astonished all the poor German princes who had an opportu- nity of beholding and tasting my entertainments . I was indeed so much the object of public no- tice , that the source of my wealth became the 26 ...
... living in a style that astonished all the poor German princes who had an opportu- nity of beholding and tasting my entertainments . I was indeed so much the object of public no- tice , that the source of my wealth became the 26 ...
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... living ; and my mind was one morning particularly torn and dis- tracted with these contemplations , when my at- tention was suddenly roused by the abrupt en- trance of my son Charles into the room where I was sitting . He opened the ...
... living ; and my mind was one morning particularly torn and dis- tracted with these contemplations , when my at- tention was suddenly roused by the abrupt en- trance of my son Charles into the room where I was sitting . He opened the ...
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... living with my moth- er in France . That one day , while working in the field , I was suddenly taken up in the air by a being like an old man , but who , I was sure was the devil - that he had changed clothes with me , and then ...
... living with my moth- er in France . That one day , while working in the field , I was suddenly taken up in the air by a being like an old man , but who , I was sure was the devil - that he had changed clothes with me , and then ...
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... living corse , who then appear- ed in a light undress , and was led to the bed side , where they placed his hand in that of Em- meline , who immediately arose , and fell in his arms . La Grange heaved a deep sigh , and ex- claimed ...
... living corse , who then appear- ed in a light undress , and was led to the bed side , where they placed his hand in that of Em- meline , who immediately arose , and fell in his arms . La Grange heaved a deep sigh , and ex- claimed ...
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Էջ 111 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Էջ 176 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Էջ 86 - Unlike our gross, diseas'd, terrestrial blood : (For not the bread of man their life sustains, Nor wine's inflaming juice supplies their veins.) With tender shrieks the goddess fill'd the place, And dropt her offspring from her weak embrace.
Էջ 101 - ... himself completely master of the great secret. His first attempt to carry it into execution, was to be in the leg he was about to make for Mynheer Von Wodenblock. It was on the evening of the sixth day from that to which I have already alluded, that with this magic leg, carefully packed up, the acute artisan again made his appearance before the expecting and impatient Wodenblock.
Էջ 100 - The Dutch Prometheus declared, that to please Mynheer Von Wodenblock, he would do more than human ingenuity had ever done before, and undertook to bring him, within six days, a leg which would laugh to scorn the mere common legs possessed by common men. This assurance was not meant as an idle boast. Turningvort was a man of speculative as well as practical science, and there was a favourite discovery which he had long been endeavouring to make, and in accomplishing which he imagined he had at last...
Էջ 105 - ... grew very pale — he was evidently not prepared for this new difficulty. He lost not a moment, however, in following the merchant, to do what he could towards extricating him from so awkward a predicament. The merchant, or rather the merchant's leg, was walking very quick, and Turningvort, being an elderly man, found it no easy matter to make up to him. He did so at last, nevertheless, and, catching him in his arms, lifted him entirely from the ground. But the stratagem (if so it may be called),...
Էջ 86 - Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends, And at the goddess his broad lance extends ; Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove, Th...
Էջ 151 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?