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... Lady ( EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE ) , TOM HOOD's capital ancient ballad with a number of admirable new illustrations by ... Ladies ( THACKER & Co. ) Mrs. POWER O'DONOGHUE ( more power to her - not that she wants it ) shows no signs of ...
... Lady ( EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE ) , TOM HOOD's capital ancient ballad with a number of admirable new illustrations by ... Ladies ( THACKER & Co. ) Mrs. POWER O'DONOGHUE ( more power to her - not that she wants it ) shows no signs of ...
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... lady , who has been flitting from group to group sipping theological honey , like a serious - minded bee , approaches and , discovering her error , sails off with a volley of very audible sniffs . " I don't know if I weary you , " he ...
... lady , who has been flitting from group to group sipping theological honey , like a serious - minded bee , approaches and , discovering her error , sails off with a volley of very audible sniffs . " I don't know if I weary you , " he ...
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... lady said in a recent trial about the danger of writing Diaries ? But you plunge in , and bring down about our heads one of the best built architectural constructions that has been reared for many years , though I say it that should not ...
... lady said in a recent trial about the danger of writing Diaries ? But you plunge in , and bring down about our heads one of the best built architectural constructions that has been reared for many years , though I say it that should not ...
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... lady , and Miss MIGGS , sat watching in the little Cabinet . ON DIT . THE series of Articles on Foreign Affairs in the Fort- nightly are to be signed " Ipse Dilxit . " The MAC- DERMOTT is to have a new seasonable version of his Song ...
... lady , and Miss MIGGS , sat watching in the little Cabinet . ON DIT . THE series of Articles on Foreign Affairs in the Fort- nightly are to be signed " Ipse Dilxit . " The MAC- DERMOTT is to have a new seasonable version of his Song ...
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... Lady . He must not break off in the midst of unravelling a thrilling mystery to tell us a good joke . We may laugh at it , if it is a really good one , but we get it over as quickly as politeness will allow , and say , earnestly ...
... Lady . He must not break off in the midst of unravelling a thrilling mystery to tell us a good joke . We may laugh at it , if it is a really good one , but we get it over as quickly as politeness will allow , and say , earnestly ...
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Page 202 - Till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed To prove it fresh from the river. He cut it short, did the great god Pan, (How tall it stood in the river !) Then drew the pith, like the heart of a man, Steadily from the outside ring, And notched the poor dry empty thing In holes, as he sat by the river. 'This is the way...
Page 120 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 65 - Thy wit's great overplus; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it, Lest we that talent spend; And having once brought to an end That precious stock, the store Of such a wit the world should have no more.
Page 93 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore...
Page 93 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend !" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 193 - Well, not this evenin', So, my little dear (brusquely), adoo!" very act of flight by memories of this last adventure — the one bright and cheering episode, possibly, in his entire professional career.) Fast he speeds across the housetops! (Rapid delivery for this.) (Very gently.) But his bosom throbs with bliss, For upon his rough lips linger Traces of a baby's kiss. (Most delicate treatment will be necessary in the last couplet — or the audience may understand it in a painfully literal sense.)...
Page 193 - All forgotten now the jewels, Once the purpose of his "job"; Down he sinks upon the door-mat, With a deep and choking sob.
Page 193 - oo work to bweak in houses ? Nana told me so, I 'm sure ! Will 'oo twy if 'oo can manage to bweak in my dolls'-house door ? " I tan never det it undone, so my dollies tan't det out ; They don't like the fwont to open every time...
Page 193 - Deftly now the task's accomplished, for the door will open well, When a childish voice behind him breaks the silence like a bell— "Sank 'oo, Missa Burglar, sank 'oo, and, betause 'oo's been tho nice, See, I've bwought 'oo up a tartlet — gweat big gweedies eat the ice. Papa says he wants to see 'oo ; Partinthon is tummin' too — Tan't 'oo stay — " "Well, not this evenin', so, my little dear, adoo!