Temple Bar, Volumen7Ward and Lock, 1862 |
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... means an indulgent one . She expected her sons to succeed in life , and her daughters to marry rich men ; and would have had little patience with any disappointment in either of these reasonable expectations . She was attached to her ...
... means an indulgent one . She expected her sons to succeed in life , and her daughters to marry rich men ; and would have had little patience with any disappointment in either of these reasonable expectations . She was attached to her ...
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... mean the tragedy , you know ; but the supernumeraries . Did you ever see such an awkward set of fellows in all your life ? There's a man there with weak legs and a heavy banner , that I've been watching all the evening . He's more fun ...
... mean the tragedy , you know ; but the supernumeraries . Did you ever see such an awkward set of fellows in all your life ? There's a man there with weak legs and a heavy banner , that I've been watching all the evening . He's more fun ...
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... means handsome , but almost womanly in its softness of expression . It was the face of a man who had not yet seen his thirtieth birthday ; who might never live to see it , Edward Arundel thought mournfully . " Why do you do this ...
... means handsome , but almost womanly in its softness of expression . It was the face of a man who had not yet seen his thirtieth birthday ; who might never live to see it , Edward Arundel thought mournfully . " Why do you do this ...
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... means or other contrived to find out whether number one was con- sumptive , or number two dropsical , or number three apoplectic ; but John was utterly incapable of any such Machiavellian proceeding . I think he sometimes beguiled his ...
... means or other contrived to find out whether number one was con- sumptive , or number two dropsical , or number three apoplectic ; but John was utterly incapable of any such Machiavellian proceeding . I think he sometimes beguiled his ...
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... means , and even while you are telling her the number and quality of your guests , sketches out a rough ground - plan of her dishes , ponders the fish in season , and the soups most fitting to precede them , and balances the contending ...
... means , and even while you are telling her the number and quality of your guests , sketches out a rough ground - plan of her dishes , ponders the fish in season , and the soups most fitting to precede them , and balances the contending ...
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Æneid Algiers answered asked Aurora Bashaw beautiful better called Captain child comedy cousin cried crowd Dangerfield daughter dear Doncaster door Dryden duty Edward Arundel English eyes face fancy father fellow French Galleasse garden gentleman give Grimstone hand handsome happy head heart honour horse hour Jack Dangerous John Marchmont John Mellish kind King knew Knight of Malta lady Lincolnshire little girl live Livy London look manner Marchmont Towers married Mary Marchmont mind Miss Arundel Molière morning Moyle murder never night Oakley Street Olivia Arundel once papa pass perhaps play poet poor pretty Renegado round scarcely seemed Softy Stephen Hargraves sure Swampington Talbot Bulstrode tell thing thought Thunar thunderstone tion told took town turned Volunteers waistcoat walked wife window woman words young
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Página 381 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 344 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, " To be exalted thus;" " Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
Página 581 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Página 95 - All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Página 581 - Sermons, with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them ? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
Página 186 - He did not, he could not see the dogs fighting; it was a flash of an inference, a rapid induction. The crowd round a couple of dogs fighting, is a crowd masculine mainly, with an occasional active, compassionate woman fluttering wildly round the outside, and using her tongue and her hands freely upon the men, as so many "brutes...
Página 79 - And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Such are not your decrees ; but so designed, The sanction leaves a lasting peace behind, Like your own soul serene, a pattern of your mind.
Página 587 - For my own part, I am but just set up in the business, so know little about it — but, in my opinion, to write a book is for all the world like humming a song — be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
Página 80 - ... years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ; The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made his work, for man to mend. The tree of knowledge, once in Eden placed, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste : Oh, had our grandsire walk'd without his wife, He first had sought the better plant of life ! Now both are lost : yet, wandering in the dark, Physicians, for the tree, have found the bark : They, labouring for relief of...
Página 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.