In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociableHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 328 páginas |
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... whole life I experience . have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it is pleasant to speak - that is , who keep to the subject , do not repeat themselves , and do not talk of themselves ; men who do not listen to their own voices ...
... whole life I experience . have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it is pleasant to speak - that is , who keep to the subject , do not repeat themselves , and do not talk of themselves ; men who do not listen to their own voices ...
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... whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it is pleasant to speak - that is , who keep to the subject , do not repeat themselves , and do not talk of themselves ; men who do not listen to their own voices , who are ...
... whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it is pleasant to speak - that is , who keep to the subject , do not repeat themselves , and do not talk of themselves ; men who do not listen to their own voices , who are ...
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... whole conversation . And usually it was so fit , so appropriate , that it fixed itself in the memory of his hearers ; unlike the wordy declamation which , as a noise in the air , floated away from Madame de Staël's admiring audience ...
... whole conversation . And usually it was so fit , so appropriate , that it fixed itself in the memory of his hearers ; unlike the wordy declamation which , as a noise in the air , floated away from Madame de Staël's admiring audience ...
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... whole party plied their knives and forks without speaking a word , except one man , who talked incessantly , right or wrong , and made up for the silence of the rest by his eternal babble . He affected to be a wit , to tell a good story ...
... whole party plied their knives and forks without speaking a word , except one man , who talked incessantly , right or wrong , and made up for the silence of the rest by his eternal babble . He affected to be a wit , to tell a good story ...
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... whole of his life . It is said that the attend- ant in his last illness intended to give his patient some medicine ; but a few moments afterward it was discovered that the medi- cine was nothing but ink , which had been taken from the ...
... whole of his life . It is said that the attend- ant in his last illness intended to give his patient some medicine ; but a few moments afterward it was discovered that the medi- cine was nothing but ink , which had been taken from the ...
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actor answered appear asked Barnaby Rudge called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Coleridge conversation Daniel Sheffey dear death dinner Drury Lane Emerson evil exclaimed expression eyes face famous fancy father feel fellow friends Garrick genius gentleman George Eliot give Goethe habit happiness Hawthorne hear heard Horace Walpole human intellect Johnson king knew Lady Lamb letter live look Lord Macaulay Madame Madame de Genlis Madame de Staël memory ment mind moral nature ness never night observed old age once person Philip Gilbert Hamerton play pleasure poet poor Protesilaus remarked replied Rogers says School for Scandal Scott seemed Shakespeare Sheridan solitude speak speech story Swift Sydney Smith talk tell thing thou thought thousand tion told Tulchan turned vanity versation Voltaire Warren Hastings wife words writing wrote young youth
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Página 42 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 237 - ... swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers...
Página 78 - I was silent from astonishment; was it possible this mild-looking, beardless boy, could be the veritable monster at war with all the world? — excommunicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family, and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school?
Página 223 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Página 27 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 59 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Página 120 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 57 - For which reason, as there is nothing more ridiculous than an old trifling story-teller, so there is nothing more venerable, than one who has turned his experience to the entertainment and advantage of mankind.
Página 24 - I was present not long since at a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns was expected, and happened to drop a silly expression (in my South British way) that I wished it were the father instead of the son, when four of them started up at once to inform me that "that was impossible, because he was dead.
Página 121 - ... and save ; majestic from its mercy ; venerable from its utility ; uplifted, without pride ; firm, without obduracy ; beneficent in each preference ; lovely, though in her frown...