 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of Death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth — A large train...coming on to my memory, when my servant knocked at my closet door, and interrupted me with a letter, attended with a hamper of wine, of the same sort with... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of Death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth — A large train...coming on to my memory, when my servant knocked at my closet door, and interrupted me with a letter, attended with a hamper of wine, of the same sort with... | |
 | Sebastian Bauza - 1912 - 284 pages
...her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler ? I still behold the smiling earth A large train of disasters were coming 011 to my memory, when my servant knocked at my closet-door, and interrupted me with a letter, attended... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...the unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since smiling earth- A large train of disasters 'Endurance, were coming on to my memory, when my servant knocked at my closet-door, and inter- fought a duel upon his first coming to town, rupted me with a letter, attended with a ham- and... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...gentleness of mind, which has since smiling earth A large train of disasters »Endurance, were coining nte," quod that oother, " out of doute, That by my trouthe I sha inter- fought a duel upon his first coming to town, rupted me with a letter, attended with a ham- and... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...battledore: an instrument resembling a racket used in the game of battledore and shuttlecock. PAGE 92. 3. wine, of the same sort with that which is to be put...to sale on Thursday next at Garraway's Coffee-house : a bit of puffing on Steele's part. The sale was formally announced among the advertisements in the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth—A large train of disasters were coming on to my memory, when my servant knocked at the closet door, and interrupted me with a letter, attended with a hamper of wine, of the same sort... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - English essays - 1925 - 328 pages
...her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler ? I still behold the smiling earth — A large train...same sort with that which is to be put to sale on 47 Thursday next, at Garraway's coffee-house. Upon the receipt of it, I sent for three of my friends.... | |
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 392 pages
...her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the habit of death become the pretty trifler! I still behold the smiling earth — A large train...coming on to my memory, when my servant knocked at my closet door, and interrupted me with a letter, attended with a hamper of wine, of the same sort with... | |
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... why this cruelty to the humble, to the meek, to the undiscerning, to the thoughtless? Nor age, nor business, nor distress can erase the dear image from my imagination. In the same week, I saw her dressed for a ball, and in a shroud. How ill did the... 
