Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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... wish to enter into con- versation with any but two or three old - fashioned peers , who sometimes , not always , took their parliamentary dinners at the club , in their way to the House of Lords . With one of these , Lord Langston , he ...
... wish to enter into con- versation with any but two or three old - fashioned peers , who sometimes , not always , took their parliamentary dinners at the club , in their way to the House of Lords . With one of these , Lord Langston , he ...
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... wish it ; but I am not sure he will repay you . He is a bit of a humorist ; and though , as you see , he lives in a daily crowd , he also , as you see , wishes to be as much aloof from it as he can . " Lord Langston , however , went up ...
... wish it ; but I am not sure he will repay you . He is a bit of a humorist ; and though , as you see , he lives in a daily crowd , he also , as you see , wishes to be as much aloof from it as he can . " Lord Langston , however , went up ...
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... the son of a stock - broker , who named him Capel after Capel Court , the Stock Exchange ; upon the strength of which , he sets up for a connexion of the Essex family . " " My dear brother , I wish you would teach STERLING . 13.
... the son of a stock - broker , who named him Capel after Capel Court , the Stock Exchange ; upon the strength of which , he sets up for a connexion of the Essex family . " " My dear brother , I wish you would teach STERLING . 13.
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Robert Plumer Ward. " My dear brother , I wish you would teach me- " " To distinguish Bristol stones from dia- monds , " said Sterling . " But you were made , my dear sister , for what you are : a plain , ex- cellent , pretty , and kind ...
Robert Plumer Ward. " My dear brother , I wish you would teach me- " " To distinguish Bristol stones from dia- monds , " said Sterling . " But you were made , my dear sister , for what you are : a plain , ex- cellent , pretty , and kind ...
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... wishes . These , in the end , were both of them gratified ; for though Mr. Sterling , having been at Hackney himself , made a stout defence of it , saying it was worth all the public schools put together , and would therefore on no ...
... wishes . These , in the end , were both of them gratified ; for though Mr. Sterling , having been at Hackney himself , made a stout defence of it , saying it was worth all the public schools put together , and would therefore on no ...
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Page 299 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 73 - And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Page 53 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 238 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Page 128 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Page 4 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Page 48 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Page 32 - Athenae non tam operibus magnificis exquisitisque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione summorum virorum, ubi quisque habitare, ubi sedere, ubi disputare sit solitus, studioseque eorum etiam sepulcra contemplor.
Page 73 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Page 72 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...