The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... stood on the hearth , with one hand in his waistcoat , as was his wont when about to philosophise in more detail than was usual to him . " Mr Squills , " said he , " you have had great ex- perience in families . " " As good a practice ...
... stood on the hearth , with one hand in his waistcoat , as was his wont when about to philosophise in more detail than was usual to him . " Mr Squills , " said he , " you have had great ex- perience in families . " " As good a practice ...
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... stood a square red brick house , about the date of Queen Anne . Upon the top of the house was a balustrade ; why , heaven knows - for nobody , except our great tom- cat Ralph , ever walked upon the leads - but so it was , and so it ...
... stood a square red brick house , about the date of Queen Anne . Upon the top of the house was a balustrade ; why , heaven knows - for nobody , except our great tom- cat Ralph , ever walked upon the leads - but so it was , and so it ...
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A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. house stood a little back from the garden gates , which were large , and set between two piers surmounted with vases . Many might object , that in wet weather you had to walk some way ...
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. house stood a little back from the garden gates , which were large , and set between two piers surmounted with vases . Many might object , that in wet weather you had to walk some way ...
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... stood erect and rampant , encompassed with a circum- vallation of whalebone , buckram , and black silk . was , in truth , nearly seventeen , and I gave myself the airs of a man . Now , be it observed , that that crisis in adolescent ...
... stood erect and rampant , encompassed with a circum- vallation of whalebone , buckram , and black silk . was , in truth , nearly seventeen , and I gave myself the airs of a man . Now , be it observed , that that crisis in adolescent ...
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... stood Melancholy . Ah ! who amongst you , readers , can now summon back all those thoughts , sweet and sad — all that untold , half - conscious regret for the past - all those vague longings for the future , which made a poet of the ...
... stood Melancholy . Ah ! who amongst you , readers , can now summon back all those thoughts , sweet and sad — all that untold , half - conscious regret for the past - all those vague longings for the future , which made a poet of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.