A Book for a Corner; Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best Suited to that Mode of Enjoyment: With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction, Volume 1Leigh Hunt G.P. Putnam, 1852 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 10
... lived to add precious matter to the stock . We flatter ourselves , or rather we dare to aver , considering the authors who furnish our extracts , that nobody would have more approved of our book than Mrs. Inchbald . Some of the most ...
... lived to add precious matter to the stock . We flatter ourselves , or rather we dare to aver , considering the authors who furnish our extracts , that nobody would have more approved of our book than Mrs. Inchbald . Some of the most ...
Page 11
... lived to be happy in them . The wish to possess a country - house , a retreat , a nest , a harbour of some kind from the storms and even from the agitating pleasures of life , is as old as the sorrows and joys of civilization . The ...
... lived to be happy in them . The wish to possess a country - house , a retreat , a nest , a harbour of some kind from the storms and even from the agitating pleasures of life , is as old as the sorrows and joys of civilization . The ...
Page 58
... would be a living magazine of flesh , milk , butter , and cheese for me as long as I lived in the place , if it were to be forty years ; and that keeping them in my reach depended entirely upon 58 CRUSOE'S MEDITATIONS AND MODE OF LIFE .
... would be a living magazine of flesh , milk , butter , and cheese for me as long as I lived in the place , if it were to be forty years ; and that keeping them in my reach depended entirely upon 58 CRUSOE'S MEDITATIONS AND MODE OF LIFE .
Page 61
... lived quite on the other side of the island , he would never have been so simple to leave a mark in a place where it was ten thousand to one whether I should ever see it or not ; and in the sand too , which the first surge of the sea ...
... lived quite on the other side of the island , he would never have been so simple to leave a mark in a place where it was ten thousand to one whether I should ever see it or not ; and in the sand too , which the first surge of the sea ...
Page 70
... lived . I understood him in many things , and let him know I was very well pleased with him . In a little time I began to speak to him , and teach him to speak to me ; at first I made him know his name should be Friday , which was the ...
... lived . I understood him in many things , and let him know I was very well pleased with him . In a little time I began to speak to him , and teach him to speak to me ; at first I made him know his name should be Friday , which was the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration agreeable Anne's Hill appeared baron beautiful better boat called carts castle charming Chiswick House club Comanians count delight desert of Lop door Eton College eyes fancy father fear feel fire garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give Gray ground hand happy hear heard heart Heaven hill horse hour Jack Bruce kind knew lady lived look lord Ludovico Marco Polo master mind morning MUNGO PARK nature never night nomade rovers o'er observed OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY passages passed person pleased pleasure poet Prester John reader retired returned Robert Bage Sartach seemed seen servants shore side Sillery Sir Roger sleep sort spirit stood story sweet Tartars taste Tatler tell things thought tion told took travellers trees village voice walk William de Rubruquis wind wood word young youth