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Страница 215 - Think, in this batter'd caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and day, How Sultan after Sultan with his pomp Abode his destined hour and went his way.
Страница 194 - And puppy-dogs' tails, That's what little boys are made of. What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice And all that's nice, That's what little girls are made of.
Страница 259 - ... Boundersville is famed. Not a trace of guilty consciousness about him anywhere — not a trace! It was with a sort of shock that the Dean noticed that there was nothing of the kind. " How do, Pettifer ? I'm doing what I call my morning task of stone-breaking — writing letters, by proxy, to a lot of people who have more time on their hands than they know what to do with, and who, therefore, insist upon wasting mine. Anything particular to say to me?
Страница 201 - COLLECTION. 285 then attended him night and day, and who, for want of air, was constrained to put his head out through the roof. The excitement created by the arrival of the hippopotamus was immense ; the number of visitors to the gardens suddenly rose from 168,895 in 1849 to 360,402 in 1850; and the population of London thus attracted to the establishment as suddenly discovered that it contained an unrivalled collection of the most interesting and instructive character, in which, if, as often happened,...
Страница 180 - ... canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations : every one of which terms, I was at much pains to make him understand.
Страница 130 - He was a man of a warm, uniform complexion, something between brick and plum color, and of an irritated texture of skin, as though it was his habit to wash with oil of vitriol and dry himself with a nutmeg-grater. He walked quickly but stiffly, as if he had no knees; he was constantly slapping his chest with his fist, and he carried a thick bamboo cane. My feelings as regards this gentleman being those I have described, I need not say I became in time acquainted with him. When science is farther...
Страница 154 - Sun, but for whose countenance your life must be an unbroken winter, devoid of light or warmth ; and he has a happy knack of looking in on you at moments when your occupation is in some way specially calculated to afford him new material for a note about you. He finds you, let us say, conning the almanac of the year before last, which you have just taken up to see when the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race of that year came off, and at once pounces upon your employment as a characteristic eccentricity....
Страница 133 - ... flourishing his damp towel, and telling society his sensations. Cold, sir! he should think it was cold. So much the better. There was a variety of the Boreas breed that became a public nuisance at the time when the Turkish bath was first introduced. This Boreas was profound in all the details and theories of the new process, and had by heart all the pamphlets and articles written on the subject, with which he perpetually harassed mankind. As the captain above named bullied you with his chest,...
Страница 142 - Old Collywobbles;" in consequence of which, perhaps, it is that the concierge curtly tells you that this is not the •day for seeing the Museum, and the Chef-de-Gare refuses to mark your through-ticket so as to enable you to dine and go on by the next train. Take him anywhere, at home or abroad, in public or in private, on the top of Mont Blanc or on the top of an omnibus, he is—a very good fellow it may be, but—a most intolerable nuisance.
Страница 149 - He reminds me of that ogre who used to be introduced in juvenile books. Of course, I don't mean the good oldfashioned ogre who lived in a castle, and had a hearty appetite for children, but that dreadful being who pervades the more modern fiction offered to youth, the instructive uncle of the Peter Parley school, who takes William and James out for a walk, and is able to account for everything in nature up to the milk in the cocoa-nut; who knows everything, and answers questions such as no William...