The comet; ed. by an anonymous Tartar |
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... mind , I should jot down a few of the incidents I have verbally related to you , concerning the fatal epoch which , thirty years ago , destroyed the results of eight centuries of civilisation . I shall wel- come the memories of that ...
... mind , I should jot down a few of the incidents I have verbally related to you , concerning the fatal epoch which , thirty years ago , destroyed the results of eight centuries of civilisation . I shall wel- come the memories of that ...
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... minds , were perverted by mannerism and affectation . For this , we were indebted to the rhapsodies of a writer whose eloquence , gaudy as the promiscuous overflow of a colourbox , had burst like a deluge over the public taste ; an ...
... minds , were perverted by mannerism and affectation . For this , we were indebted to the rhapsodies of a writer whose eloquence , gaudy as the promiscuous overflow of a colourbox , had burst like a deluge over the public taste ; an ...
9 psl.
... as well as low . The rich and great took a craze for refining the mind of the nation , instead of preparing it for refinement ; and away went the lords and millionnaires to work , sewing their Honiton sprigs upon THE COMET . 9.
... as well as low . The rich and great took a craze for refining the mind of the nation , instead of preparing it for refinement ; and away went the lords and millionnaires to work , sewing their Honiton sprigs upon THE COMET . 9.
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... minds of the illiterate , was the assertion that , even if compelled to pass through the tail of the Comet , nay , its very body , we should be little inconvenienced by the transit ; -these luminaries , so dreaded by the ancient world ...
... minds of the illiterate , was the assertion that , even if compelled to pass through the tail of the Comet , nay , its very body , we should be little inconvenienced by the transit ; -these luminaries , so dreaded by the ancient world ...
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... having , unlike the British Bank , long been in a solvent condition . A far more alarming failure , however , was soon bruited about , which filled every mind with consternation ; the wells of the United King- dom were THE COMET . 23.
... having , unlike the British Bank , long been in a solvent condition . A far more alarming failure , however , was soon bruited about , which filled every mind with consternation ; the wells of the United King- dom were THE COMET . 23.
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
ancient approach arose Astrology atmosphere baronet beasts became become bittern blunders British Islands burthen calcined called century Chatsworth cholera Church Comet converted crisis dead dear children deserted desolate disfigured Downing street duncehood earth eminent England Europe evil excitement exhibit famine fashionable fatal favour fire fire-by frightful German astro gigantic glowing graves hand happy Heaven heavenly bodies Henry VIII honourable member horrible House human insti instituted labour land Legion Legion of Honour lest letters LITTLE PULTENEY STREET London longer Lord luxury Maid of Honour ment Metropolis miles mind moiety nature nigger night nomer Palace panic patent Poor missus popular produced Professor Hind Professor Von Littrow proved proverbial public order Queen Queen Victoria rable Rehoboam rendered REYNELL AND WEIGHT rose Royal scarcely Sicilies stars steamers sunstroke tail terrible thereof tion tocsin tution vulgar waste week Whig winds of Heaven yellow fever
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65 psl. - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, And all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: And it shall be an habitation of dragons, And a court for owls.
65 psl. - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
64 psl. - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch, It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up forever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
65 psl. - ... through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
88 psl. - Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
56 psl. - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
70 psl. - But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
1 psl. - Old men, and beldames, in the streets Do prophesy upon it dangerously : Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths : And when they talk of him, they shake their heads, And whisper one another in the ear ; And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist ; While he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.