Dog and DuckA.A. Knopf, 1924 - Всего страниц: 226 |
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... THINGS THINGS NEAR AND FAR HIEROGLYPHICS THE THREE IMPOSTORS DOG AND DUCK In preparation ORNAMENTS IN JADE THE LONDON ADVENTURE NEW YORK : ALFRED A KNOPF Dog and Duck Arthur Machen New York • Alfred A. BOOKS BY ARTHUR MACHEN.
... THINGS THINGS NEAR AND FAR HIEROGLYPHICS THE THREE IMPOSTORS DOG AND DUCK In preparation ORNAMENTS IN JADE THE LONDON ADVENTURE NEW YORK : ALFRED A KNOPF Dog and Duck Arthur Machen New York • Alfred A. BOOKS BY ARTHUR MACHEN.
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... Things On Simnel - cakes 30 35 41 " April Fool ! " 47 The Merry Month of May 53 A Midsummer Night's Dream 59 July Sport : With Some Remarks on Young Mr. Blue Face 66 " A Thorough Change " 73 Roast Goose : With a Dissertation on Apple ...
... Things On Simnel - cakes 30 35 41 " April Fool ! " 47 The Merry Month of May 53 A Midsummer Night's Dream 59 July Sport : With Some Remarks on Young Mr. Blue Face 66 " A Thorough Change " 73 Roast Goose : With a Dissertation on Apple ...
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... thing as Knurr and Spell ? " He rebuked my ignorance . He explained the two games . He explained further that even to hit the ball at Knurr and Spell a man must be northern - born . He said it was one of the most difficult games that ...
... thing as Knurr and Spell ? " He rebuked my ignorance . He explained the two games . He explained further that even to hit the ball at Knurr and Spell a man must be northern - born . He said it was one of the most difficult games that ...
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... things , and the game is ended , and they have their pains for their labours , and the remorse of runagates for their choicest cogitations , and the babble of fools in their ears in place of the comfortable whisper of the angels as they ...
... things , and the game is ended , and they have their pains for their labours , and the remorse of runagates for their choicest cogitations , and the babble of fools in their ears in place of the comfortable whisper of the angels as they ...
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... minutes before the bell of twelve , I believe that a little of the Watch Night spirit of the Methodists finds its way into the cups and strikes a silence about the board . I On Valentines and Other Things T is a theory 34 Why New Year ?
... minutes before the bell of twelve , I believe that a little of the Watch Night spirit of the Methodists finds its way into the cups and strikes a silence about the board . I On Valentines and Other Things T is a theory 34 Why New Year ?
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Стр. 174 - By what means,' said the prince, 'are the Europeans thus powerful? Or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural princes? The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither.
Стр. 107 - I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
Стр. 99 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Стр. 103 - I must abide by the actual scene), a white cottage, embowered with flowering shrubs, so chosen as to unfold a succession of flowers upon the walls and clustering around the windows, through all the months of spring, summer, and autumn; beginning, in fact, with May roses, and ending with jasmine. Let it, however, not be spring, nor summer, nor autumn; but winter, in its sternest shape. This is a most important point in the science of happiness.
Стр. 209 - He and I walked away together: we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion, that I was now thinking of two friends we had lost, who once lived in the buildings behind us, Beauclerk and Garrick. " Ay, Sir, (said he, tenderly) and two such friends as cannot be supplied.
Стр. 33 - ... were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome of the place, with amphitheatre, baths, temples, and everything necessary for the comfort of a Roman-Briton. And the Legion brought over the custom of the strena (French, etrennes), the New Year's Gift of good omen. The apple, with its...
Стр. 110 - Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with .pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Стр. 19 - prentice notch'd he strait doth call, Where's dame? (quoth he) — quoth son of shop, She's gone her cake in milke to sop. Ho ! ho ! — to ISLINGTON — enough — Fetch Job my son, and our dog Ruffe ; For there, in pond, through mire and muck, We'll cry, hay, duck — there Ruffe — hay, duck,
Стр. 210 - The word bottom thus introduced was so ludicrous when contrasted with his gravity, that most of us could not forbear tittering and laughing; though I recollect that the Bishop of Killaloe kept his countenance with perfect steadiness, while Miss Hannah More...
Стр. 32 - ... to be the disproportionate fruit of these small trees. At last, three bits of stick were fixed into the base of the apple, tripod-wise, and so it was borne round from house to house; and the children got cakes and sweets, and — those were wild days, remember — small cups of ale. And nobody knew what it was all about. And here is the strangeness of it. Caerleon means the Fort of the Legions, and for about three hundred years the Second Augustan Legion was quartered there and made a tiny Rome...