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... STREET , AND 19 , CHEAP STREET , BATH . EDINBURGH : OLIVER AND BOYD . DUBLIN : J. M'GLASHAN . 1653 . 203. d . 22 . BIAN - 4 MAR 1977 LIBRARY RHODES HO * OXFORD.
... STREET , AND 19 , CHEAP STREET , BATH . EDINBURGH : OLIVER AND BOYD . DUBLIN : J. M'GLASHAN . 1653 . 203. d . 22 . BIAN - 4 MAR 1977 LIBRARY RHODES HO * OXFORD.
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... street , and I experienced the most delightful sensation on once more setting foot on terra firma , after our dreary ... streets being unmacadamized , had that arid look we read of in accounts of the plains of Arabia , the dust being ...
... street , and I experienced the most delightful sensation on once more setting foot on terra firma , after our dreary ... streets being unmacadamized , had that arid look we read of in accounts of the plains of Arabia , the dust being ...
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... street presented a busy mart - like appearance , every description of goods being piled heterogeneously before the warehouse- doors of their respective owners in the open thoroughfare , which is at this part very wide . Auctioneers were ...
... street presented a busy mart - like appearance , every description of goods being piled heterogeneously before the warehouse- doors of their respective owners in the open thoroughfare , which is at this part very wide . Auctioneers were ...
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... street widens , as a preliminary introduction to the sale of a quantity of linen goods that had been damaged at a recent fire in the neighbour- hood . I could not help admiring the man's tact . Fixing his eyes on an individual in a ...
... street widens , as a preliminary introduction to the sale of a quantity of linen goods that had been damaged at a recent fire in the neighbour- hood . I could not help admiring the man's tact . Fixing his eyes on an individual in a ...
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... street rang with the stentorian voices of the sellers . Many of these were mock auctions , as an observer of any intelli- gence would detect , and as I ascertained beyond doubt almost directly after leaving this man's stand ; for ...
... street rang with the stentorian voices of the sellers . Many of these were mock auctions , as an observer of any intelli- gence would detect , and as I ascertained beyond doubt almost directly after leaving this man's stand ; for ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...