The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... Sir Sedley Beaudesert . Now , you must understand that it is a warm night , a little after nine o'clock - a night between departing summer and approaching autumn . The windows are open - we have a balcony , which my mother has taken ...
... Sir Sedley Beaudesert . Now , you must understand that it is a warm night , a little after nine o'clock - a night between departing summer and approaching autumn . The windows are open - we have a balcony , which my mother has taken ...
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... Sir Sedley Beaudesert . O rare specimen of a race fast decaying ! —specimen of the true fine gentleman , ere the word dandy was known , and before exquisite became a noun sub- stantive - let me here pause to describe thee ! Sir Sedley ...
... Sir Sedley Beaudesert . O rare specimen of a race fast decaying ! —specimen of the true fine gentleman , ere the word dandy was known , and before exquisite became a noun sub- stantive - let me here pause to describe thee ! Sir Sedley ...
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... Sir Sedley was the fashion , and he had talent . He had travelled much , he had read much - especially in memoirs , history , and belles - lettres - he made verses with grace and a certain originality of easy wit and courtly sentiment ...
... Sir Sedley was the fashion , and he had talent . He had travelled much , he had read much - especially in memoirs , history , and belles - lettres - he made verses with grace and a certain originality of easy wit and courtly sentiment ...
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... Sir Sedley Beaudesert , 66 an anecdote of the first Duke of Portland ? He had a gallery in the great stable of his villa in Holland , where a concert was given once a week , to cheer and amuse his horses ! I have no doubt the horses ...
... Sir Sedley Beaudesert , 66 an anecdote of the first Duke of Portland ? He had a gallery in the great stable of his villa in Holland , where a concert was given once a week , to cheer and amuse his horses ! I have no doubt the horses ...
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... Sir Sedley , who had slightly coloured at Trevanion's charge , but had now recovered his easy self - possession , " you have spoken so admirably , that you give me courage to confess my weakness . I do dread to be old . All the joys of ...
... Sir Sedley , who had slightly coloured at Trevanion's charge , but had now recovered his easy self - possession , " you have spoken so admirably , that you give me courage to confess my weakness . I do dread to be old . All the joys of ...
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Página 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 331 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Página 25 - I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, — it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. "Ah...
Página 331 - Caxtons.' Passion, in him, comprehended -many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural advantages of this poor boy— his beauty, his readiness, the daring spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere— had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claims to admiration into prejudices...
Página 40 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.