The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... leave , instead of to his own flesh and blood , Jack and Kitty . All at least that I could grasp deficiente manu , of his Latin , his Greek , his Orientals . What do I not owe to him ! " " To whom ? " asked Squills . " Good Lord ...
... leave , instead of to his own flesh and blood , Jack and Kitty . All at least that I could grasp deficiente manu , of his Latin , his Greek , his Orientals . What do I not owe to him ! " " To whom ? " asked Squills . " Good Lord ...
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... leave Nature alone for the present , and Nature's loving proxy , the watchful mother . " Therewith my father pointed to his heir sprawling on the grass , and plucking daisies on the lawn ; while the young mother's voice rose merrily ...
... leave Nature alone for the present , and Nature's loving proxy , the watchful mother . " Therewith my father pointed to his heir sprawling on the grass , and plucking daisies on the lawn ; while the young mother's voice rose merrily ...
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... 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 presents . Not long ...
... 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 presents . Not long ...
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... leave to sell it . ” My father paid his bill and went out . I lingered behind a few moments , and joined him at the end of the street . " Papa , papa ! " I cried , clapping my hands , " we can buy the geranium - we can buy the flower ...
... leave to sell it . ” My father paid his bill and went out . I lingered behind a few moments , and joined him at the end of the street . " Papa , papa ! " I cried , clapping my hands , " we can buy the geranium - we can buy the flower ...
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... otherwise render students too mercurial and agile for the safety of established order . I leave this conjecture to the consideration of experimentalists in the physics . I was still more delighted than my father with Uncle 56 THE CAXTONS :
... otherwise render students too mercurial and agile for the safety of established order . I leave this conjecture to the consideration of experimentalists in the physics . I was still more delighted than my father with Uncle 56 THE CAXTONS :
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amongst answered asked Austin Author Blackwood's Magazine bless brother brow called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child cried Crown Octavo door drew earwigs Edition eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father Fcap felt fortune garden gentleman GEORGE HENRY LEWES Greek hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hurdy-gurdy Keith Johnston Kitty knew Lady Ellinor laugh leave lived London look Lord Rainsforth ma'am member of Parliament mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never once pause Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Puss in Boots quoth round saffron Savoyard scholar seemed sigh Sir Sedley Beaudesert Sisty smile speak Squills stood STRANGER talk tell thing thought tion took truth turned Uncle Jack Uncle Roland Vivian voice volume walk WILLIAM BLACKWOOD William Caxton window woman word young youth
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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.