Paul Clifford

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B. Tauchnitz, 1842 - 476
 

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Strona 110 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Strona 389 - Brandon; he felt it, exerted himself for a last effort, and proceeded) — "to pronounce on you the sharp sentence of the law! It is, that you be taken back to , the prison whence you came, and thence (when the supreme authority shall appoint) to the place of execution, to be there hanged by the neck till you are dead; and the Lord God Almighty have mercy on your soul!
Strona 242 - Here laws are all inviolate — none lay Traps for the traveller — every highway's clear — Here' — he was interrupted by a knife, With — 'Damn your eyes! your money or your life!
Strona 68 - Then ask'd what arms the swarthy Memnon wore, What troops he landed on the Trojan shore; The steeds of Diomede varied the discourse, And fierce Achilles, with his matchless force; At length, as fate and her ill stars requir'd, To hear the series of the war desir'd. "Relate at large, my godlike guest...
Strona 66 - Young people are apt, erroneously, to believe that it is a bad thing to be exceedingly wicked. The House of Correction is so called, because it is a place where so ridiculous a notion is invariably corrected.
Strona 378 - Seven years ago I was sent to the house of correction for an offence which I did not commit. I went thither, a boy who had never infringed a single law; I came forth, in a few weeks, a man who was prepared to break all laws! Whence was this change? Was it my fault, or that of my condemners? You had first wronged me by a punishment which I did not de...
Strona 100 - Nature ! is there nought to prize, Familiar in thy bosom scenes of life ? And dwells in daylight truth's salubrious skies No form with which the soul may sympathize...

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