The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsSmith, Elder, and Company, 1859 - 449 pages |
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... Eyes and no Eyes , or the Art of Seeing . * The two heroes of it come home successively from a walk in the same road , one of them having seen only a heath and a hill , and the meadows by the water- side , and therefore having seen ...
... Eyes and no Eyes , or the Art of Seeing . * The two heroes of it come home successively from a walk in the same road , one of them having seen only a heath and a hill , and the meadows by the water- side , and therefore having seen ...
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... eyes of his understanding may be like bad spectacles , which no brightening would enable to see much . But he may be only inattentive . Circumstances may have induced a want of curiosity , to which imagination itself shall contribute ...
... eyes of his understanding may be like bad spectacles , which no brightening would enable to see much . But he may be only inattentive . Circumstances may have induced a want of curiosity , to which imagination itself shall contribute ...
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... eyes to look about them . It stands at the corner of Wood Street , and occupies the space of a house . There was a ... eye , being divided from the footway by a railing only . In the body of our work will be found notices of other trees ...
... eyes to look about them . It stands at the corner of Wood Street , and occupies the space of a house . There was a ... eye , being divided from the footway by a railing only . In the body of our work will be found notices of other trees ...
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... eye something in the same way as the hand - organs , which bring unexpected music to the ear . They refresh the common - places of life , shed a harmony through the busy discord , and appeal to those first sources of emotion , which are ...
... eye something in the same way as the hand - organs , which bring unexpected music to the ear . They refresh the common - places of life , shed a harmony through the busy discord , and appeal to those first sources of emotion , which are ...
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... eyes . It is at the same time worth observing , that though Sir Christopher appears to have rejected the Pagan story with reason , he could not find it in his heart to refuse credit to the gratuitous traditions of old writers in favour ...
... eyes . It is at the same time worth observing , that though Sir Christopher appears to have rejected the Pagan story with reason , he could not find it in his heart to refuse credit to the gratuitous traditions of old writers in favour ...
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Page 364 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Page 362 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 35 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 322 - O, Sir, I cannot think Mr. Garrick would grudge such a trifle to you." " Sir, (said he, with a stern look,) I have known David Garrick longer than you have done ; and I know no right you have to talk to me on the subject.
Page 363 - Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both (to show his judgment) in extremes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man, with him, was God or devil.
Page 270 - Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Page 259 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you. I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room with her hair hanging about her shoulders and a dead child in her arms. This I have seen since I saw you.
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Page 111 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe, if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
Page 93 - Short; rather plump than emaciated, notwithstanding his complaints: about five foot five inches: fair wig; lightish cloth coat, all black besides: one hand generally in his bosom, the other a cane in it, which he leans upon under the skirts of his coat usually, that it may imperceptibly serve him as a support, when attacked by sudden tremors or startings, and dizziness...