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... standing army except the Queen's Guard and the garrisons kept in a few forts on the coast or on the Scottish border . The royal navy was extremely small ; and the revenues of the Crown were totally inadequate to the effort of raising it ...
... standing army except the Queen's Guard and the garrisons kept in a few forts on the coast or on the Scottish border . The royal navy was extremely small ; and the revenues of the Crown were totally inadequate to the effort of raising it ...
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... standing clear out under the cloudless sky . Yet another beautiful day , and we crossed the Bay in the steam - launch ... stand for awhile in the streets of this silent city ; could almost imagine that the inhabitants had quitted it but ...
... standing clear out under the cloudless sky . Yet another beautiful day , and we crossed the Bay in the steam - launch ... stand for awhile in the streets of this silent city ; could almost imagine that the inhabitants had quitted it but ...
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... standing whose self - satisfaction and incompetence were not less pro- nounced , whilst their taste in selection was decidedly inferior to those exhibited by this humble specimen of the irrepressible race of reciters , to whom , as he ...
... standing whose self - satisfaction and incompetence were not less pro- nounced , whilst their taste in selection was decidedly inferior to those exhibited by this humble specimen of the irrepressible race of reciters , to whom , as he ...
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... stand over him , and force him to eat at the sword's point ! BISMARCK has already been twice shot in the leg , and ... standing on the stage who could have played this part half as well - I stood , must of course be read as meaning ...
... stand over him , and force him to eat at the sword's point ! BISMARCK has already been twice shot in the leg , and ... standing on the stage who could have played this part half as well - I stood , must of course be read as meaning ...
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... stand in your shoes for something when the accounts are gone through ! A Mild Man . Can you tell me how much this one is ? O. S. ( tartly ) . Aren't they marked on the back ? No ! Six- pence three - farthings , then . M. M. Are you ...
... stand in your shoes for something when the accounts are gone through ! A Mild Man . Can you tell me how much this one is ? O. S. ( tartly ) . Aren't they marked on the back ? No ! Six- pence three - farthings , then . M. M. Are you ...
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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!