Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a GentlemanH. Colburn, 1828 - Всего страниц: 244 |
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... hands a novel upon manners is likely to fall , the lighter and less obvious the method in which reflection is conveyed , the greater is its chance to be received without distaste and remembered without aversion . Nor have I in- dulged ...
... hands a novel upon manners is likely to fall , the lighter and less obvious the method in which reflection is conveyed , the greater is its chance to be received without distaste and remembered without aversion . Nor have I in- dulged ...
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... hand next to Mr. Conway's heart , when she re- membered that her favourite china monster and her French dog were left behind . She insisted on returning - re - entered the house , and was coming down stairs with one under each arm ...
... hand next to Mr. Conway's heart , when she re- membered that her favourite china monster and her French dog were left behind . She insisted on returning - re - entered the house , and was coming down stairs with one under each arm ...
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... hand , 66 your conduct has been most exemplary ; you have not walked wantonly over the college grass- plats , nor set your dog at the proctor - nor driven tandems by day , nor broken lamps by night - nor entered the chapel in order to ...
... hand , 66 your conduct has been most exemplary ; you have not walked wantonly over the college grass- plats , nor set your dog at the proctor - nor driven tandems by day , nor broken lamps by night - nor entered the chapel in order to ...
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... hands to Heaven , and muttered some words I was not able distinctly to hear . As I approached nearer to him which I did with no very pleasant sensations , a large black dog , which , till then , had remained couchant , sprung towards me ...
... hands to Heaven , and muttered some words I was not able distinctly to hear . As I approached nearer to him which I did with no very pleasant sensations , a large black dog , which , till then , had remained couchant , sprung towards me ...
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... hand ; I spoke to him in every endearing term that I could think of ; and roused and excited as my feelings were , by so strange and sudden a meeting , I felt my tears involuntarily falling over the hand which I held in my own ...
... hand ; I spoke to him in every endearing term that I could think of ; and roused and excited as my feelings were , by so strange and sudden a meeting , I felt my tears involuntarily falling over the hand which I held in my own ...
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Стр. 35 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Стр. 35 - Shall I wasting in Despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the Day, Or the Flowery Meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I, how fair she be.
Стр. 184 - ... a beautiful golden wig (the Duchesse never liked me to play with her hair) was on a block close by, and on another table was a set of teeth, d'une blaiieheur eblouissante.
Стр. 7 - Tell fortune of her blindness, Tell nature of decay, Tell friendship of unkindness, Tell justice of delay. And if the'y will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming, Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming. If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth.
Стр. 32 - The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair ; Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
Стр. 92 - What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners ! how difficult to define — how much more difficult to impart ! Better for a man to possess them, than wealth, beauty, or even talent, if it fall short of genius — they will more than supply all.
Стр. 324 - I know not why this study has been termed uninteresting. No sooner had I entered upon its consideration, than I could scarcely tear myself from it.
Стр. 134 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Стр. 11 - Latin verses in half an hour; I could construe, without an English translation, all the easy Latin authors, and many -of the difficult ones, with it: I could read Greek fluently, and even translate it through the medium of a Latin version at the bottom of the page.