In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociableHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 328 páginas |
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... 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 cultivated not to lose ...
... 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 cultivated not to lose ...
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... known , could not make the smallest re- mark without provoking a laugh ; and even when he said grace , the young lady who sat next to him said , " You always are so amusing . " His compliment to Lady D. is worth remembering . " She ...
... known , could not make the smallest re- mark without provoking a laugh ; and even when he said grace , the young lady who sat next to him said , " You always are so amusing . " His compliment to Lady D. is worth remembering . " She ...
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... known , and has often been described . Lamb and Coleridge were once talking together on the incidents of Coleridge's early life , when he was beginning his career in the Church , and Coleridge was describing some of the facts in his ...
... known , and has often been described . Lamb and Coleridge were once talking together on the incidents of Coleridge's early life , when he was beginning his career in the Church , and Coleridge was describing some of the facts in his ...
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... known Thackeray's him has his story regarding that astonish- ing memory . It may be that he was not ill - pleased that you should recognize it ; but to those prodigious intellectual feats , which were so easy to him , who would grudge ...
... known Thackeray's him has his story regarding that astonish- ing memory . It may be that he was not ill - pleased that you should recognize it ; but to those prodigious intellectual feats , which were so easy to him , who would grudge ...
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... known . A certain coxcomb , wishing to mortify the great dramatist , asked him point - blank who was his father . " A mulatto , sir , " coldly replied Dumas , imperceptibly divining the intended insult . " And your grandfather ? " " A ...
... known . A certain coxcomb , wishing to mortify the great dramatist , asked him point - blank who was his father . " A mulatto , sir , " coldly replied Dumas , imperceptibly divining the intended insult . " And your grandfather ? " " A ...
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Página 54 - 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 259 - ... 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 39 - 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 71 - 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 245 - 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 140 - 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 69 - 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 35 - 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 304 - There he stood working at his anvil, his face all radiant with exercise and gladness, his sleeves turned up, his wig pushed off his shining forehead — the easiest, freest, happiest man in all the world.
Página 41 - What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable...