The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... door , and vanished . " I think , " said a kind gossip seated at the other side of my mother's bed- " I think , my dear , that Mr Caxton might have shown more joy , -more natural feeling , I may say , at the sight of the baby and SUCH a ...
... door , and vanished . " I think , " said a kind gossip seated at the other side of my mother's bed- " I think , my dear , that Mr Caxton might have shown more joy , -more natural feeling , I may say , at the sight of the baby and SUCH a ...
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... doors , was so placed out of hearing - that my father , for the most part , was privileged , if he pleased , to forget my existence . He was once vaguely recalled to it on the occasion of my christening . Now , my father was a shy man ...
... doors , was so placed out of hearing - that my father , for the most part , was privileged , if he pleased , to forget my existence . He was once vaguely recalled to it on the occasion of my christening . Now , my father was a shy man ...
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... door and went out . I cannot tell you how puzzled I was to make out what my father meant by his aphorism . But I know that I played at dominos no more that day . The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the ...
... door and went out . I cannot tell you how puzzled I was to make out what my father meant by his aphorism . But I know that I played at dominos no more that day . The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the ...
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... door , admiring the little girls who were straw - platting , and then walk into the nearest farm- houses , to suggest the feasibility of " a national straw- plat association . " All this fertility of intellect was , alas ! wasted in ...
... door , admiring the little girls who were straw - platting , and then walk into the nearest farm- houses , to suggest the feasibility of " a national straw- plat association . " All this fertility of intellect was , alas ! wasted in ...
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... door , with a projecting porch . All the windows , with smallish panes and largish frames , were relieved with stone copings ; -so that the house had an air of soli- dity , and well - to - do - ness about it — nothing tricky on the one ...
... door , with a projecting porch . All the windows , with smallish panes and largish frames , were relieved with stone copings ; -so that the house had an air of soli- dity , and well - to - do - ness about it — nothing tricky on the one ...
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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.