Memoirs of a midgetA.A. Knopf, 1922 - 436 pages |
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Page 185 - TAYLOR'S (Bishop Jeremy) Holy Living and Dying, with Prayers, containing the Whole Duty of a Christian and the parts of Devotion fitted to all Occasions. Portrait. TEN BRINK.— See Brink.
Page 213 - And white (shall I say than my hand?), Nay, any lady's of the land. It is a wond'rous thing, how fleet 'Twas on those little silver feet. With what a pretty skipping grace, It oft would challenge me the race: And when "t had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay.
Page 150 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! Ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 89 - ... service in mire and dust, and his thick uncombed hair, the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded. He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough-headed counterpart of himself, as he expected. "Is Heathcliff not here?" she demanded, pulling off her gloves, and displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors. "Heathcliff, you may come forward...
Page 149 - With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, — Must make content with his fortunes fit, For the rain it raineth every day.
Page 119 - Till then I never waked, Till the roguish boy Of love where I lay Me found and stript me naked.
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Page 88 - In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven - and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as...
Page 88 - Chapter j. 1801 — I HAVE just returned from a visit to my landlord — the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country ! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven : and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow...
Page 21 - ... than the person of Miss M. the Midget, who is so diminutive that even the child, to whom daisies and buttercups are platters and chalices, is a hulking clodhopper when compared with her, who sees an ordinary garden as a kind of enchanted jungle : My eyes dazzled in colours. The smallest of the marvels of flowers and flies and beetles and pebbles, and the radiance that washed over them, would fill me with a mute, pent-up rapture almost unendurable.