New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen106Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1856 |
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... better still , he is rich . I should say that with such advantages your marriage cannot fail to be happy . " Wolf started up hastily and left the room . Mr. Trymm continued to sound the praises of the bridegroom elect , and to descant ...
... better still , he is rich . I should say that with such advantages your marriage cannot fail to be happy . " Wolf started up hastily and left the room . Mr. Trymm continued to sound the praises of the bridegroom elect , and to descant ...
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... better than to be a poor goldsmith's wife . As to you , my man , you were born to be a beggar , and , with all your cleverness , you will never make a for- tune . You came into this life under an unlucky planet , and it was an evil hour ...
... better than to be a poor goldsmith's wife . As to you , my man , you were born to be a beggar , and , with all your cleverness , you will never make a for- tune . You came into this life under an unlucky planet , and it was an evil hour ...
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... better . Nor can it be reasonably supposed that Butler's uncompromising Pro- testantism had anything to do with the ingratitude of royalty , since Charles found it convenient to make the same profession himself , and his successor ...
... better . Nor can it be reasonably supposed that Butler's uncompromising Pro- testantism had anything to do with the ingratitude of royalty , since Charles found it convenient to make the same profession himself , and his successor ...
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... better off . A comparatively dry subject may be so enlivened by the phraseology , and delivery , and incidental remarks of the lecturer , that the heavy may be thoroughly administered through the assistance of the light matter , as ...
... better off . A comparatively dry subject may be so enlivened by the phraseology , and delivery , and incidental remarks of the lecturer , that the heavy may be thoroughly administered through the assistance of the light matter , as ...
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... better things which rouse , and warm , and dignify our nature ? I have lectured in the stately hall or handsome public room , upon the elevated or inspiring topic , before the fashionable and refined audience . Yet I can do something better ...
... better things which rouse , and warm , and dignify our nature ? I have lectured in the stately hall or handsome public room , upon the elevated or inspiring topic , before the fashionable and refined audience . Yet I can do something better ...
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Página 247 - But being ill-used by the abovementioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half; and though his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself and never dressed afterwards; he continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 247 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Página 248 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for, as the Knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Página 247 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
Página 249 - ... behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me...
Página 249 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does...
Página 248 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer, told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
Página 245 - She was thinking of a hunter, From another tribe and country, Young and tall and very handsome, Who one morning, in the Spring-time, Came to buy her father's arrows, Sat and rested in the wigwam, Lingered long about the doorway, Looking back as he departed.
Página 366 - Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy,...
Página 431 - Board of the most experienced and intelligent commissaries ; who after all would be able to discharge their office but very inadequately. " Yet this object is accomplished far better than it could be by any effort of human wisdom, through the agency of men, who think each of nothing beyond his own immediate interest — who, with that object in view, perform their respective parts with cheerful zeal — and combine unconsciously to employ the wisest means for effecting an object, the vastness of...