The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... seemed rather to commune with himself than to answer Mr Squills . " The kindest , the best of men , " he murmured— 66 Abyssus Eruditionis : and to think that he bestowed on me the only fortune he had to leave , instead of to his own ...
... seemed rather to commune with himself than to answer Mr Squills . " The kindest , the best of men , " he murmured— 66 Abyssus Eruditionis : and to think that he bestowed on me the only fortune he had to leave , instead of to his own ...
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... seemed incapable of acting for him- self ; he left all to my mother ; or , if taken unawares , was pretty sure to be the dupe . But in those very affairs - if another consulted him - his eye brightened , his brow cleared , the desire of ...
... seemed incapable of acting for him- self ; he left all to my mother ; or , if taken unawares , was pretty sure to be the dupe . But in those very affairs - if another consulted him - his eye brightened , his brow cleared , the desire of ...
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... seemed more natural and English- less outlandish and heretical . And it was at the zenith of its renown , when , one bright morning , with all my clothes nicely mended , and a large plum - cake in my box , I was deposited at its ...
... seemed more natural and English- less outlandish and heretical . And it was at the zenith of its renown , when , one bright morning , with all my clothes nicely mended , and a large plum - cake in my box , I was deposited at its ...
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... seemed to him then that his fellow - creatures were sadly imposed upon by their tailors . Those ninth parts of humanity notoriously eked out their fractional existence by asking nine times too much for the cloth- ing which civilisation ...
... seemed to him then that his fellow - creatures were sadly imposed upon by their tailors . Those ninth parts of humanity notoriously eked out their fractional existence by asking nine times too much for the cloth- ing which civilisation ...
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... sward of green , on which sundry little boys were engaged upon the lapidation of a lame duck . It seemed that the duck was to have been taken to market , It when it was discovered not only to be lame , THE CAXTONS . 59.
... sward of green , on which sundry little boys were engaged upon the lapidation of a lame duck . It seemed that the duck was to have been taken to market , It when it was discovered not only to be lame , THE CAXTONS . 59.
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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.