A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1849 - Anthologies |
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Page 39
... called them forth . Steele , indeed , may be said to have always talked , rather than written ; and hence the beauties as well as defects of his style , which is apt to be too carelessly colloquial . Steele , like Fielding , Smollett ...
... called them forth . Steele , indeed , may be said to have always talked , rather than written ; and hence the beauties as well as defects of his style , which is apt to be too carelessly colloquial . Steele , like Fielding , Smollett ...
Page 44
... called out to his enemy , “ Ah , Valentine ! can you leave me here ? " Valentine immediately ran back , and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought him through all that danger as far as the ...
... called out to his enemy , “ Ah , Valentine ! can you leave me here ? " Valentine immediately ran back , and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought him through all that danger as far as the ...
Page 50
... woman , who had been the gentleman's nurse , came out about this time to call the ladies in to supper , and found her child , as she always called him , dead on the shore , her mistress and kinswoman both lying 50 THE SHIPWRECK .
... woman , who had been the gentleman's nurse , came out about this time to call the ladies in to supper , and found her child , as she always called him , dead on the shore , her mistress and kinswoman both lying 50 THE SHIPWRECK .
Page 52
... called Alexandrinus to him , and as he lay on a couch over against which his son was seated , and prepared by sending out servants one after another , and admonition to examine that no one overheard them , he revealed the most important ...
... called Alexandrinus to him , and as he lay on a couch over against which his son was seated , and prepared by sending out servants one after another , and admonition to examine that no one overheard them , he revealed the most important ...
Page 54
... called Kenatus to his bedside , and bespoke him in the most pathetic gesture and accent . much , my son , as you have been addicted to vanity and pleasure , as I also have been before you , you nor I could escape the fame or the good ...
... called Kenatus to his bedside , and bespoke him in the most pathetic gesture and accent . much , my son , as you have been addicted to vanity and pleasure , as I also have been before you , you nor I could escape the fame or the good ...
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