All the Year Round, Volume 11; Volume 31Charles Dickens Charles Dickens, 1874 - English literature |
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Page 246 - Bear down, d'ye see, To our Admiral's lee ! ' 'No, no,' says the Frenchman, 'that can't be !' ' Then I must lug you along with me !
Page 299 - ... my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect. We can, my dear Coll, have no little jealousies. We have only one great object in view, that of annihilating our enemies, and getting a glorious peace for our country. No man has more confidence in another than I have in you; and no man will render...
Page 44 - Fathers have virtually the power of life and death over their children, for even if they kill them designedly, they are subject to only the chastisement of the bamboo, and a year's banishment; if struck by them, to no punishment at all. The penalty for striking parents, or for cursing them, is death as among the Hebrews.
Page 190 - I'll taste that. Bon. Sir, I have now in my cellar ten ton of the best ale in Staffordshire : 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy ; and will be just fourteen years old the fifth day of next March, old style.
Page 107 - Adieu, my dear daddy, I won't be mortified, and I won't be downed ; but I will be proud to find I have, out of my own family, as well as in it, a friend who loves me well enough to speak plain truth to me.
Page 300 - Temeraire: so that these four ships formed as compact a tier as if they had been moored together, their heads lying all the same way. The lieutenants of the Victory...
Page 140 - I may be cast into the sea, that others may avoid the tempest. ' This is, most sacred sovereign, the petition of him that should esteem his blood well shed, to cement the breach between your Majesty and your subjects upon this occasion.
Page 337 - The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete tho outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest. Portions of tho entertainments were simply dumb show and pantomime, but it is clear that spoken dialogue was also resorted to. In such cases the "extemporal wit," or gagging of the comic actors, was indispensably necessary. The " comedians of Ravenna," who were not " tied to any written device...
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Page 59 - THE FISHERMAN'S SUMMONS. THE sea is calling, calling. Wife, is there a log to spare ? Fling it down on the hearth and call them in, The boys and girls with their merry din, I am loth to leave you all just yet, In the light and the noise I might forget, The voice in the evening air. The sea is calling, calling, Along the hollow shore. • I know each nook in the rocky strand, And the crimson...