Ernest Maltravers Or The EleusiniaJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1874 - 575 |
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... towns , in the year 18- , was a wide and deso- late common ; a more dreary spot it is impossible to con- ceive the herbage grew up in sickly patches from the midst of a black and stony soil . Not a tree was to be seen in the whole of ...
... towns , in the year 18- , was a wide and deso- late common ; a more dreary spot it is impossible to con- ceive the herbage grew up in sickly patches from the midst of a black and stony soil . Not a tree was to be seen in the whole of ...
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... town , you could just perceive at a little distance from the main road , by which the common was intersected , a small , solitary , and miser- able hovel . Within this lonely abode , at the time in which my story opens , were seated two ...
... town , you could just perceive at a little distance from the main road , by which the common was intersected , a small , solitary , and miser- able hovel . Within this lonely abode , at the time in which my story opens , were seated two ...
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... town , wagons , carts , pedestrian groups were already moving ; and , now and then , you caught the sharp horn of some early coach , wheeling its becloaked outside and benightcapped inside passengers along the northern thoroughfare . A ...
... town , wagons , carts , pedestrian groups were already moving ; and , now and then , you caught the sharp horn of some early coach , wheeling its becloaked outside and benightcapped inside passengers along the northern thoroughfare . A ...
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... town you will be exposed to many temptations : take care where you lodge ; you have , no doubt , friends here ? " " Friends ? -what are friends ? " answered Alice . " Have you no relations ; no mother's kin ? " " None . " " Do you know ...
... town you will be exposed to many temptations : take care where you lodge ; you have , no doubt , friends here ? " " Friends ? -what are friends ? " answered Alice . " Have you no relations ; no mother's kin ? " " None . " " Do you know ...
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... town . Maltravers , though not an elder son , was the heir of affluent fortunes ; he enjoyed a munificent allowance that sufficed for the whims of a youth who had learned in Ger- many none of the extravagant notions common to young ...
... town . Maltravers , though not an elder son , was the heir of affluent fortunes ; he enjoyed a munificent allowance that sufficed for the whims of a youth who had learned in Ger- many none of the extravagant notions common to young ...
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Strona 40 - Maltravers had abundant resources in himself. He placed Shakspeare and Schiller on his table, and lighted his German meerschaum — he read till he became inspired, and then he wrote — and when he had composed a few stanzas he was not contented till he had set them to music and tried their melody with his voice. For he had all the passion of a German for song and music— that wild Maltravers ! —and his voice was sweet, his taste consummate, his science profound. As the sun puts out a star, so...
Strona 168 - People talk about thinking — but for my part I never think, except when I sit down to write." I believe this is not a very common case, for people who don't write think as well as people who do...