| Christopher C. Yates - Cholera - 1832 - 52 pages
...total prohibition of drinks, particularly cold water, under the most ardent and unquenchable thirst ! " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder 1" If the disease, as is contended, be of a special character, why has there not, in the seventeen... | |
| Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...his drag, and immediately conveyed to Maidenhead. The battle was over in •_'."> minutes. " Can euch things be ? And overcome us like a summer cloud Without our special wonder?1 The PET OF THE FANCY — the admiration and delight of his brethren of the Bunch of l-'ives... | |
| Mary Boddington - 1834 - 374 pages
...illustrious Ude, and the man of batter and gruel who calls himself chef de cuisine at the Hotel Nassau ! " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ! " The castle of Sonninberg, on an insulated hill in the centre of corn-fields and fruit-trees, was... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Actors - 1834 - 414 pages
...and the murderer then suddenly breaks up the assembly, by the following confession of his horrors : ' Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me Even to the disposition that I am, When now I think you can behold such sights And keep... | |
| Mrs. Mary Boddington - Italy - 1834 - 368 pages
...illustrious Ude, and the man of batter and gruel who calls himself chef de cuisine at the Hotel Nassau ! " Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder ! " The castle of Sonninberg, on an insulated hill in the centre of corn-fields and fruit-trees, was... | |
| William Rae Wilson - Europe, Southern - 1835 - 508 pages
...fruitful a source of crime and ruin as gambling should be made to contribute to the revenue of the state. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder? What food for the laughter of a Democritus ! what humiliating reflection for a philanthropist ! As... | |
| Frederic William Naylor Bayley - Correctional institutions - 1835 - 298 pages
...discovered, too, that all this is the effect of a system ? and have you never asked yourself, Can these things be And overcome us like a summer cloud ^ Without our special wonder ! " Should imprisonment for debt then longer be a blot upon the charter of English liberty, while we... | |
| Industrial arts - 1836 - 498 pages
...instead of 10, the rage for railways could hardly have been greater than it is at present. " Can these things be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder?" Some of the lines projected, and the grounds on which they rest their pre* We (to not think this is... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1836 - 502 pages
...10, the rage for railways could hardly have been greater than it is at present. " Can these thing's be, and overcome us like a summer cloud, without our special wonder?" Some of the lines projected, and the grounds on which they rest their pre* We do not think Ibis is... | |
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