Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall, Volúmenes4-5Anna Maria Hall |
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... schooner , " Mrs. Lewis suggested , in the quietest tone possible , as though she had been speaking of something quite common - place . 66 ' Yes , " Lewis replied ; " Brace will be here to - morrow , and that can be easily managed . He ...
... schooner , " Mrs. Lewis suggested , in the quietest tone possible , as though she had been speaking of something quite common - place . 66 ' Yes , " Lewis replied ; " Brace will be here to - morrow , and that can be easily managed . He ...
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... schooner will be up in the river in the morning . Let Brace know . In my room , the fourth board from the window , press the knot in the board and lift it . There are two parcels ; take the smallest . " This was said in a very low tone ...
... schooner will be up in the river in the morning . Let Brace know . In my room , the fourth board from the window , press the knot in the board and lift it . There are two parcels ; take the smallest . " This was said in a very low tone ...
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... SCHOONER . My next thought was how to warn old Brace , who , if he came to the house , would fall into the grasp of Cuff ; and I came to the conclusion , that if I could tell what time the schooner would be up , I had better go down the ...
... SCHOONER . My next thought was how to warn old Brace , who , if he came to the house , would fall into the grasp of Cuff ; and I came to the conclusion , that if I could tell what time the schooner would be up , I had better go down the ...
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... schooner if she came in sight . I was sure of that . Could I not manage to swim off to her ? I would try , at all events . The river , it is true , was far broader than any water I had ever ventured into , and I knew nothing of the ...
... schooner if she came in sight . I was sure of that . Could I not manage to swim off to her ? I would try , at all events . The river , it is true , was far broader than any water I had ever ventured into , and I knew nothing of the ...
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... schooner was bound for Torquay , where I was to join Brace at the expiration of four days . " Should I give Mr. Nathan the packet ? " ( which I produced , unopened . ) Brace expressed his opinion that it would not be quite advisable to ...
... schooner was bound for Torquay , where I was to join Brace at the expiration of four days . " Should I give Mr. Nathan the packet ? " ( which I produced , unopened . ) Brace expressed his opinion that it would not be quite advisable to ...
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Página 235 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 283 - I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person." "Why, who," cries Jones, "dost thou take to be such a coward here besides thyself?
Página 202 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised), and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year, of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300, a considerable portion of which remained with my clerk...
Página 237 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Página 204 - Officers of justice have owned to me, that they have passed by such with warrants in their pockets against them without daring to apprehend them ; and, indeed, they could not be blamed for not exposing themselves to sure destruction ; for it is a melancholy truth, that, at this very day, a rogue no sooner gives the alarm, within certain purlieus, than twenty or thirty armed villains are found ready to come to his assistance.
Página 234 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Página 290 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country...
Página 208 - Our immortal Fielding was of the younger branch of the Earls of Denbigh, who drew their origin from the Counts of Hapsburg, the lineal descendants of Eltrico, in the seventh century Duke of Alsace.
Página 112 - By one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate• at once my lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that day We read no more.
Página 202 - In short, the magistrate had too great an honour for truth, to suspect that she ever appeared in sordid apparel ; nor did he ever sully his sublime notions of that virtue, by uniting them with the mean ideas of poverty and distress.