The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... stopped his ears : - " Little things can make a great noise , " said he philosophically ; " and the smaller the thing the greater noise it can make . " So saying , he crept on tiptoe to the bed , and clasp- ing the pale hand held out to ...
... stopped his ears : - " Little things can make a great noise , " said he philosophically ; " and the smaller the thing the greater noise it can make . " So saying , he crept on tiptoe to the bed , and clasp- ing the pale hand held out to ...
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... he touched my heart ; and one here , " and he touched my forehead . 66 " I don't understand , papa . " " I can wait till you do , Pisistratus ! What a name ! " My father stopped at a nursery gardener's , and , 26 THE CAXTONS :
... he touched my heart ; and one here , " and he touched my forehead . 66 " I don't understand , papa . " " I can wait till you do , Pisistratus ! What a name ! " My father stopped at a nursery gardener's , and , 26 THE CAXTONS :
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... stopped again at a china- warehouse . " Have some months ago ? Yes , that is the price . day comes again , we some months to wait . And we can wait , Master Sisty . For truth , that blooms all the year round , is better than a poor ...
... stopped again at a china- warehouse . " Have some months ago ? Yes , that is the price . day comes again , we some months to wait . And we can wait , Master Sisty . For truth , that blooms all the year round , is better than a poor ...
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... stopping , dear man , to jot down a pencil - note , gesticulate , or soliloquise . And there , when not in his study , my mother would be sure to find him . In these deambu- lations , as he called them , he had generally a com- panion ...
... stopping , dear man , to jot down a pencil - note , gesticulate , or soliloquise . And there , when not in his study , my mother would be sure to find him . In these deambu- lations , as he called them , he had generally a com- panion ...
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... stopping short , and lifting his eyes from the Colloquies of Erasmus , " salve mul- tum , jucundissime . " Uncle Jack was not much of a scholar , but he knew enough of Latin to answer , " Salve tantundem , mi frater . " " I see you com ...
... stopping short , and lifting his eyes from the Colloquies of Erasmus , " salve mul- tum , jucundissime . " Uncle Jack was not much of a scholar , but he knew enough of Latin to answer , " Salve tantundem , mi frater . " " I see you com ...
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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.