All the Year Round, Volume 5

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Charles Dickens, 1861
 

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Page 65 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 203 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 202 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 415 - No'w from all Parts the swelling Kennels flow, And bear their Trophies with them as they go: Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell What Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell.
Page 201 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 148 - I'm making a better gentleman nor ever you'll be ! ' When one of 'em says to another, ' He was a convict a few years ago, and is a ignorant common fellow now, for all he's lucky,' what do I say ? I says to myself, ' If I ain'ta gentleman, nor yet ain't got no learning, I'm the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land ; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?
Page 202 - And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Page 51 - I consumed the whole time in thinking how strange it was that I should be encompassed by all this taint of prison and crime ; that, in my childhood, out on our lonely marshes on a winter evening I should have first encountered it ; that it should have reappeared on two occasions, starting out like a stain that was faded but not gone ; that, it should in this new way pervade my fortune and advancement.
Page 115 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Page 65 - I had the pleasure frequently to converse with the Man soon after his Arrival in England, in the Year 1711. It was matter of great Curiosity to hear him, as he is a Man of good Sense, give an Account of the different Revolutions in his own Mind in that long Solitude. When we consider how painful Absence from Company, for the space of but one Evening, is to the generality of Mankind...

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