New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 3C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... feet two to two feet four , and in their ages from ten to three years . Chairs were ranged round the table for the young fry , who were extremely orderly and well behaved for a short time , and in the first instance taken to the colonel ...
... feet two to two feet four , and in their ages from ten to three years . Chairs were ranged round the table for the young fry , who were extremely orderly and well behaved for a short time , and in the first instance taken to the colonel ...
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... feet are , how the courser could maintain his ground without tumbling backwards . This bold conception has fortunately fallen into the custody of one by whom it is duly valued ; for , when Dick , in his more advanced state of ...
... feet are , how the courser could maintain his ground without tumbling backwards . This bold conception has fortunately fallen into the custody of one by whom it is duly valued ; for , when Dick , in his more advanced state of ...
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... feet ; pre- scribed a drench for one , and bleeding for another ; and then took me to look at his own horse , on the merits of which he dwelt with great prolixity , and which , I noticed , had the best stall in the stable . After this I ...
... feet ; pre- scribed a drench for one , and bleeding for another ; and then took me to look at his own horse , on the merits of which he dwelt with great prolixity , and which , I noticed , had the best stall in the stable . After this I ...
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... feet high , if they are an inch , as ravenous as tigers , and kick like donkeys . " " Dear , dear ! " murmured the affectionate Mary , " and the poor children , what will become of them ? " " Never mind , my little woman , " said the ...
... feet high , if they are an inch , as ravenous as tigers , and kick like donkeys . " " Dear , dear ! " murmured the affectionate Mary , " and the poor children , what will become of them ? " " Never mind , my little woman , " said the ...
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... feet . Assistance was immediately sought and procured ; but the delicacy of her situation rendered the event more perilous than at first was apprehended , and she had nearly fallen a victim to her intrepidity and maternal love , in ...
... feet . Assistance was immediately sought and procured ; but the delicacy of her situation rendered the event more perilous than at first was apprehended , and she had nearly fallen a victim to her intrepidity and maternal love , in ...
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Page 368 - From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire.
Page 368 - ... the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections; the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science; but, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood and horror and confusion: nor shall I strive, at the distance of three centuries and a thousand miles, to delineate a scene of which there could be no spectators, and...
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Page 367 - The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the Christians, was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defence: the ditch was...