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... passed through many things in the last twenty - four hours ; and , perhaps for that reason , he was easily swayed by emotion . At any rate , in the thought that he might now seek a companion where he pleased , in the remembrance that he ...
... passed through many things in the last twenty - four hours ; and , perhaps for that reason , he was easily swayed by emotion . At any rate , in the thought that he might now seek a companion where he pleased , in the remembrance that he ...
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... passed the threshold ; his eyes did not leave her . But he did not speak . Nor did Sir Robert Vermuyden until his daughter's step , light as thistledown that morning , and now uncertain and heavy , passed out of hearing , and - and at ...
... passed the threshold ; his eyes did not leave her . But he did not speak . Nor did Sir Robert Vermuyden until his daughter's step , light as thistledown that morning , and now uncertain and heavy , passed out of hearing , and - and at ...
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... passing his baccalauréat . He came to see me on his arrival and called again some little time after . ' It is a strange ... passed in a London street the police stopped the traffic to make way for him ! ' This was pure ignorance , crass ...
... passing his baccalauréat . He came to see me on his arrival and called again some little time after . ' It is a strange ... passed in a London street the police stopped the traffic to make way for him ! ' This was pure ignorance , crass ...
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... passed under the bridges , some of the English guests , in reply to inquiries from the crowd , shouted the name of the winning boat , ' Oxford ! ' and the crowd cheered , as it can cheer on a Boat Race day . It was then noticed that one ...
... passed under the bridges , some of the English guests , in reply to inquiries from the crowd , shouted the name of the winning boat , ' Oxford ! ' and the crowd cheered , as it can cheer on a Boat Race day . It was then noticed that one ...
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William Makepeace Thackeray. THE PASSING OF EUCLID . THE reform of geometrical teaching is the one reform our ancient ... passed through stormy times in the last few years ; and among the wreckage is Euclid's elements . It is a matter of ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. THE PASSING OF EUCLID . THE reform of geometrical teaching is the one reform our ancient ... passed through stormy times in the last few years ; and among the wreckage is Euclid's elements . It is a matter of ...
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Page 707 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.
Page 615 - His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
Page 781 - And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout ; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him.
Page 632 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 627 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 595 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Page 631 - William d'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my lord Southampton at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to.
Page 628 - Base minded men all three of you, if by my misery ye be not warned: for unto none of you, like me, sought those burrs to cleave: those puppets, I mean, that speak from our mouths, those antics garnished in our colours.
Page 822 - I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Page 619 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.