Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 60Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Richard Bentley, 1866 - Literature |
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... better , and everybody was satisfied . The more favoured of the guests were asked to dinner by the baronet , and the O'Dowdy , finding that he was not included , invited himself . " It's not often I dine out of my yacht in summer , but ...
... better , and everybody was satisfied . The more favoured of the guests were asked to dinner by the baronet , and the O'Dowdy , finding that he was not included , invited himself . " It's not often I dine out of my yacht in summer , but ...
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... do you good , believe me it would , and perhaps you'd think better of it before you return home . I was in trade once - I'm not ashamed of it - and when I went out pleasuring , just as you are doing , I used 12 THE SIX YACHTSMEN .
... do you good , believe me it would , and perhaps you'd think better of it before you return home . I was in trade once - I'm not ashamed of it - and when I went out pleasuring , just as you are doing , I used 12 THE SIX YACHTSMEN .
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... better for us . " Fortunately , the vessel drove into rather deeper water on the inside of the reef , where the boat could float free of the rocks . It was ne- cessary to make two trips , as the gig could not safely carry all the party ...
... better for us . " Fortunately , the vessel drove into rather deeper water on the inside of the reef , where the boat could float free of the rocks . It was ne- cessary to make two trips , as the gig could not safely carry all the party ...
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... better off than they would have been on a coral island in the Pacific . At first , there was a spice of romance in the affair which kept up the Miss Pendergrasts ' spirits , but by degrees they began to grow heartily tired of the style ...
... better off than they would have been on a coral island in the Pacific . At first , there was a spice of romance in the affair which kept up the Miss Pendergrasts ' spirits , but by degrees they began to grow heartily tired of the style ...
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... better explain matters to them , " said he . less my landlady imagines that I have taken a fancy for suicide , and that when the bolt is forced later in the day I shall be found sus- pended by a rope to the ceiling . I never thought ...
... better explain matters to them , " said he . less my landlady imagines that I have taken a fancy for suicide , and that when the bolt is forced later in the day I shall be found sus- pended by a rope to the ceiling . I never thought ...
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Page 172 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 174 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 389 - The whole employ of body and of mind. All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On...
Page 388 - Tut, man ! one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessened by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning ; One desperate grief cures with another's languish : Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Page 62 - Florence would have had another prosperous Lord Mayor ; and the ten dumb centuries continued voiceless, and the ten other listening centuries (for there will be ten of them and more) had no Divina Commedia to hear!
Page 613 - THOMAS GRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.
Page 60 - God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Page 57 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 174 - Of earth, but to despise. Opinion is the rate of things, From hence our peace doth flow; I have a better fate than kings, Because I think it so. When all the stormy world doth roar How unconcerned am I?
Page 59 - And glories in her lovers' pains. With age she fades, each lover flies, Contemn'd, forlorn, she pines and dies. When Jove the Father's grief survey'd, And heard him Heav'n and Fate upbraid, Thus spoke the God. By outward show, Men judge of happiness and woe : Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct th' eternal will ? Seek virtue ; and, of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.