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'She SAID' Anthea was very much inclined to cry 'she said, "Get Indian things for my bazaar;" but I know she thought we couldn't, and it was only play. 'Let's get them all the same, said Robert. 'We'll go the first thing on Saturday morning. And on Saturday morning, the first thing, they went. There was no finding the Phoenix, so they sat on the beautiful wishing carpet, and said
'I like not this carpet, it said; 'it is harsh and unyielding, and it hurts my golden feet. 'We've jolly well got to get used to its hurting OUR golden feet, said Cyril. 'This, then, said the bird, 'supersedes the Wishing Carpet. 'Yes, said Robert, 'if you mean that it's instead of it. 'And the magic web? inquired the Phoenix, with sudden eagerness.
'This is pretty poor sport, said Cyril. 'What's the matter with the bounders? 'I imagine that they are hungry, said the Phoenix. 'If you were to feed them 'We haven't anything to feed them with, said Anthea in despair, and she stroked the nearest Persian back. 'Oh, pussies, do be quiet we can't hear ourselves think.
The little boys observed him with exasperation. The housemaids dropped their lower jaws with wonder, when she swept down the staircase; her café-au-lait silk rolling and glittering behind her, as if the breakfast for all Loweburg were pouring down the Phoenix Hotel stairs.
He worried her, poor dearie dear till she shed tears and nature adding to the gush of waters there flowed a brackish stream away; now named Saltriver and on its banks nested the Phoenix. From Elysium in his chariot descended then the sungod to nurse his infant daughter.
"Of course, my boy! In the bustle of morning, in the hush of noon, in the ah to be brief, at any time." "And I'll bring you some cookies, if you like." "Ah," said the Phoenix, closing its eyes. "Sugar cookies, by any chance?" it asked faintly. David noticed the feathers of its throat jumping up and down with rapid swallowing motions. "I'll ask Aunt Amy to make some tonight."
But he is more likely to be what sensible families must seek, the ideal of their desires the only son of a rich landed proprietor. This phoenix we will call ADOLPHE, whatever may be his position in the world, his age, and the color of his hair. The lawyer, the captain, the engineer, the judge, in short, the son-in-law, Adolphe, and his family, have seen in Miss Caroline: I. Miss Caroline;
"Oh!" said the youngest, who had stayed with her father, "and must she die, because she put the coat on?" And Rosedrop looked very sad. She would have cried, but Tufters never cry. The Phoenix was evidently very much perplexed. He shook his head very hard while all the Tufters stood huddled around him.
The author, says Langbaine, has imbellished this Play with several fancies from other Writers, which he has appositely brought in, as the Story of the Contention between the Musician and the Nightingale, described in Strada's academical Prolusions, Lib. ii. Prol. 6. Love's Sacrifice, a Tragedy, received generally well, acted by the Queen's Servants, at the Phoenix in Drury-Lane; printed 4to.
Noctes Ambrosianae, April, 1829. The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. We must not underrate him who uses wit for subsistence, and flies from the ingratitude of the age even to a bookseller for redress. The critical faculty is a rara avis; almost as rare, indeed, as the phoenix, which appears only once in five hundred years.
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