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...is labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

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...bor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: ?Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?? ?How well Madame de Portenduere sang!? ?Who is that little ...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...f a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...illing, 13 Ile vndertake may see away their shilling 14 Richly in two short houres. Onely they 15 That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy ... ...erry, Bawdy Play, 16 A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17 In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, 18 Will be deceyu’d. For ... ...’d with the generall throng, and sweat 30 Of thousand Friends: Then, in a moment, see 31 How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery: 32 ... ...dayes master, till the last 62 Made former Wonders, it’s. To day the French, 63 All Clinquant all in Gold, like Heathen Gods 64 Shon... ...new Hell in himselfe. 123 Buc. Why the Diuell, 124 Vpon this French going out, tooke he vpon him - 3 - The Famous History of the Life o... ...ue. 141 Nor. Greeuingly I thinke, 142 The Peace betweene the French and vs, not valewes 143 The Cost that did conclude it. 144 ... ... As first, good Company, good wine, good welcome, 673 Can make good people. 674 Enter L[ord]. Chamberlaine L[ord]. Sands, and Louell. 675... ...ir Thomas Louell, Sir Nicholas 892 Vaux, Sir Walter Sands, and common people, &c. - 20 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight ... ...5 2. Let’s stand close and behold him. 896 Buck. All good people, 897 You that thus farre haue come to pitty me; 898 Heare ...

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... that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I?ll undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know, To rank our chosen truth with ...

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.... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. ...

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...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

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