The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1834 |
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Page 13
... telling unwar- rantable stories in his history , he must have overlooked this announcement ; and yet , if we recollect , it is but in the second page of the fragment . So hasty , and blind , and liable to be put to shame , is prejudice ...
... telling unwar- rantable stories in his history , he must have overlooked this announcement ; and yet , if we recollect , it is but in the second page of the fragment . So hasty , and blind , and liable to be put to shame , is prejudice ...
Page 30
... tell it in those extremities , that even the real guilt may have been produced by circumstances . It is her kindness alone , which nothing can pull down from its predominance . See fair play between cares and pastimes . Dimi- nish your ...
... tell it in those extremities , that even the real guilt may have been produced by circumstances . It is her kindness alone , which nothing can pull down from its predominance . See fair play between cares and pastimes . Dimi- nish your ...
Page 31
... tell us that a drowning man cannot too quickly get himself out of the water ; but the analogy is not good . If the water has be- come a second habit , he might almost as well say that a fish could not get too quickly out of it . Upon ...
... tell us that a drowning man cannot too quickly get himself out of the water ; but the analogy is not good . If the water has be- come a second habit , he might almost as well say that a fish could not get too quickly out of it . Upon ...
Page 100
... tell of Haunting Old Women , and Knocking Ghosts , and Solitary Lean Hands , and Empusas on One Leg , and Ladies growing Longer and Longer , and Horrid Eyes meet- ing us through Key - holes , and Plaintive Heads , and Shrieking Statues ...
... tell of Haunting Old Women , and Knocking Ghosts , and Solitary Lean Hands , and Empusas on One Leg , and Ladies growing Longer and Longer , and Horrid Eyes meet- ing us through Key - holes , and Plaintive Heads , and Shrieking Statues ...
Page 105
... tell a homelier one about Life in Death . The groundwork of it is in Sandys ' Commentary upon Ovid , and quoted from Sabinus . * • The Saxon Latin poet , we presume , professor of belles - let- tres at Frankfort . We know nothing of him ...
... tell a homelier one about Life in Death . The groundwork of it is in Sandys ' Commentary upon Ovid , and quoted from Sabinus . * • The Saxon Latin poet , we presume , professor of belles - let- tres at Frankfort . We know nothing of him ...
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