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... matters too tedious to mention , which no one present , ex- cept himself , pretended to understand , and which it appeared doubtful whether he him- self understood . All this passed at dinner , to which he was invited , and amazingly ...
... matters too tedious to mention , which no one present , ex- cept himself , pretended to understand , and which it appeared doubtful whether he him- self understood . All this passed at dinner , to which he was invited , and amazingly ...
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... matter ; so that young Greenlaw was to appear in the next Gazette , and was ad- vised to come up to town with all despatch . We shall for the present take leave of Lord Horseman , but shall return to him here- after ; and must now ...
... matter ; so that young Greenlaw was to appear in the next Gazette , and was ad- vised to come up to town with all despatch . We shall for the present take leave of Lord Horseman , but shall return to him here- after ; and must now ...
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... matter of con- sistence : -his departure was a complete caravan -a display — a procession ; he would have the country know , that he had left it to a sense of its own wretchedness , that he had deprived it of his lights , -just as we ...
... matter of con- sistence : -his departure was a complete caravan -a display — a procession ; he would have the country know , that he had left it to a sense of its own wretchedness , that he had deprived it of his lights , -just as we ...
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... cattle well matched , well driven , and stepping together , cheers the novice's heart . As the traveller thus started on life's high road , clouds of pulverised matter announced that the distinguished voya- geur was likely , 42 THE GUARDS .
... cattle well matched , well driven , and stepping together , cheers the novice's heart . As the traveller thus started on life's high road , clouds of pulverised matter announced that the distinguished voya- geur was likely , 42 THE GUARDS .
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Guards. matter announced that the distinguished voya- geur was likely , one day or other , to kick up a dust in the world ; in which some are destined to be covered with glory , some with honours , earned or forced upon them , and some ...
Guards. matter announced that the distinguished voya- geur was likely , one day or other , to kick up a dust in the world ; in which some are destined to be covered with glory , some with honours , earned or forced upon them , and some ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration amongst apothecary arrived Barnsley Baronet barouche beau monde beauty Bramblewood brave breakfast called cara sposa carriage Cherry ripe Colonel colours companion corps Crackpurse Crackpurse's curricle dandies dear dinner dress duty elegant Emma Ensign entrée exclaimed Exquisite fair fashion favour fellow female foreign fortune French gaming-table Gardes gave gay deceiver gentle gentleman Greenlaw Hall grooms Guards Guardsman habits hand handsome happy heart Herbert Gascoigne Herbert Greenlaw hero honour horses hour Lady Gertrude Lady Lydia Ladyship looked Lord Horseman Maria married masquerade matter ment military military tactics mind Monsieur morning morning calls never noble notoriety officers Ovid party passed play pounds pride Pyrrhas quadrille regiment ruin rustic smile soldier splendid subaltern sweet taste Tenth Hussars thing tion took town turned vanity Vapour waiter whilst widow word young Greenlaw youth
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Página 132 - Think'st thou that she whose only light In this dim world from thee hath shone Could bear the long, the cheerless night That must be hers when thou art gone ? That I can live, and let thee go, Who art my life itself? No, no ! When the stem dies, the leaf that grew Out of its heart must perish too. Then turn to me, my own love, turn, Before, like thee, I fade and burn ; Cling to these yet cool lips and share The last pure life that lingers there.
Página 187 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Página 132 - I'd shed it all, To give thy brow one minute's calm. Nay, turn not from me that dear face : Am I not thine — thy own loved bride — The one, the chosen one, whose place In life or death is by thy side ? Think'st thou that she, whose only light, In this dim world, from thee hath shone, Could bear the long, the cheerless night, That must be hers, when thou art gone ? That I can live and let thee go, Who art my life itself ? No, no.
Página 42 - Marchioness. Fare thee well, and if for ever, then for ever fare thee well— and put up the chain, Marchioness, in case of accidents.
Página 41 - To have a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day to melting charity...
Página 102 - When the Devil was sick, The Devil a monk would be ; But when the Devil got well, The Devil a monk was he.
Página 55 - Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather and prunella.
Página 129 - AT regina gravi jamdudum saucia cura Vulnus alit venis, et cseco carpitur igni.
Página 35 - ... comme de sotise;' op cit I Ch. 50, p. 337. 83. ibid. p. 173. 84. A. Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, in Essais, (Paris. 1965) p. 101. 85. op. cit. pp. 176-7. Cf. Boileau's Satire IV, 1664, dedicated to Le Vayer's son: En ce monde il n'est point de parfaite sagesse; Tous les hommes sont fous, et malgre tous leurs soins, Ne different entr'eux que du plus, ou du moins.
Página 152 - The dregs of time, and vile ohlivion's prey, Hold in large fee the world, and, overblown With empty thoughts, grow lavish with decay.