The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... head , and come to no harm . You see I was forced to do her that injury ; for , after all , poor young creature , it was a sad lot for her . A dull bookworm like me - cochleæ vitam agens , Mr Squills - leading the life of a snail . But ...
... head , and come to no harm . You see I was forced to do her that injury ; for , after all , poor young creature , it was a sad lot for her . A dull bookworm like me - cochleæ vitam agens , Mr Squills - leading the life of a snail . But ...
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... head out of the fatal window , nodded to the summons , and came down in a trice , pale and breathless . 66 Oh , " said my mother , mournfully , " I would rather have lost all the plants in the greenhouse in the great blight last May ...
... head out of the fatal window , nodded to the summons , and came down in a trice , pale and breathless . 66 Oh , " said my mother , mournfully , " I would rather have lost all the plants in the greenhouse in the great blight last May ...
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... head- " just to see how you'd look , papa ; and that's the truth of it . Now beat me , do beat me ! " 66 My father threw his book fifty yards off , stooped down , and caught me to his breast . " Boy , " he said , ' you have done wrong ...
... head- " just to see how you'd look , papa ; and that's the truth of it . Now beat me , do beat me ! " 66 My father threw his book fifty yards off , stooped down , and caught me to his breast . " Boy , " he said , ' you have done wrong ...
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... head , and then leaving them to work out their own problems . I remember a special instance with respect to that same flower - pot and geranium . Mr Squills , who was a bachelor , and well to do in the world , often made me little ...
... head , and then leaving them to work out their own problems . I remember a special instance with respect to that same flower - pot and geranium . Mr Squills , who was a bachelor , and well to do in the world , often made me little ...
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... head , which had drooped before , rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me . " I have called to pay your little bill , " said my father , entering the shop of one of those fancy stationers com- mon in country towns ...
... head , which had drooped before , rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me . " I have called to pay your little bill , " said my father , entering the shop of one of those fancy stationers com- mon in country towns ...
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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.