The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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Page 26
... falling over one another with a rattling noise , which , in their further progress , carried ruin and devastation into the plains . But from the centre of this arched chasm , and along a channel cut finer than art can imitate , beamed ...
... falling over one another with a rattling noise , which , in their further progress , carried ruin and devastation into the plains . But from the centre of this arched chasm , and along a channel cut finer than art can imitate , beamed ...
Page 27
... fall- ing in a direction so fatally perpendicular , that there was not one of the party present who did not expect to be crushed by it ; fortunately it fell beyond the spot on which they stood , where it was shattered into a thousand ...
... fall- ing in a direction so fatally perpendicular , that there was not one of the party present who did not expect to be crushed by it ; fortunately it fell beyond the spot on which they stood , where it was shattered into a thousand ...
Page 35
... falls down to the floor . The heat is thus confined , and the feet of those sitting round the table acquire an agreeable warmth , which is diffused to the rest of the body . " The family of Metzou generally rose before eight o'clock ...
... falls down to the floor . The heat is thus confined , and the feet of those sitting round the table acquire an agreeable warmth , which is diffused to the rest of the body . " The family of Metzou generally rose before eight o'clock ...
Page 46
... fall'n greater ? " " It is very fine , " said Benedict ; " but , after all , my love , I should not much like to see many of the old dramatists , even with all their merits , restored to the use of the general reader . You will find 46 ...
... fall'n greater ? " " It is very fine , " said Benedict ; " but , after all , my love , I should not much like to see many of the old dramatists , even with all their merits , restored to the use of the general reader . You will find 46 ...
Page 50
... fall Within the powers of our instruction To make you comprehend . I will do more With my mere shadow than you with your persons . All you can say against my coming here , Is that which , I confess , may , for the time , Breed strange ...
... fall Within the powers of our instruction To make you comprehend . I will do more With my mere shadow than you with your persons . All you can say against my coming here , Is that which , I confess , may , for the time , Breed strange ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole