The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... Squills , the accoucheur , who was engaged in some mysteries in a corner of the room . My father stopped his ears : - " Little things can make a great noise , " said he philosophically ; " and the smaller the thing the greater noise it ...
... Squills , the accoucheur , who was engaged in some mysteries in a corner of the room . My father stopped his ears : - " Little things can make a great noise , " said he philosophically ; " and the smaller the thing the greater noise it ...
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... Squills . " Go to sleep , Mrs Caxton . " " Mr Squills , " exclaimed my mother , and the bed- curtains trembled , " pray see that Mr Caxton does not set himself on fire ; -and , Mr Squills , tell him not to be vexed and miss me , -I ...
... Squills . " Go to sleep , Mrs Caxton . " " Mr Squills , " exclaimed my mother , and the bed- curtains trembled , " pray see that Mr Caxton does not set himself on fire ; -and , Mr Squills , tell him not to be vexed and miss me , -I ...
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... Squills , as , after clearing the room of all present , save Mrs Primmins and the nurse , he took his way towards my father's study . Encountering the footman in the passage , " John , ” said he , " take supper into your master's room ...
... Squills , as , after clearing the room of all present , save Mrs Primmins and the nurse , he took his way towards my father's study . Encountering the footman in the passage , " John , ” said he , " take supper into your master's room ...
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... Squills , " said he , turning round from his books , and laying one finger on the surgeon's arm confiden- tially , " Squills , " said he , " I myself should be glad to know how I came to be married . " Mr Squills was a jovial good ...
... Squills , " said he , turning round from his books , and laying one finger on the surgeon's arm confiden- tially , " Squills , " said he , " I myself should be glad to know how I came to be married . " Mr Squills was a jovial good ...
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... Squills ; " and your young wife is as pretty as she is good . " " Ha ! " said my father , " I remember . " " Do you , sir ? " exclaimed Squills , highly amused . " How was it ? " My father , as was often the case with him , pro- tracted ...
... Squills ; " and your young wife is as pretty as she is good . " " Ha ! " said my father , " I remember . " " Do you , sir ? " exclaimed Squills , highly amused . " How was it ? " My father , as was often the case with him , pro- tracted ...
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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.