Works: Including His Most Intesesting LettersBell and Daldy, 1867 - 648 páginas |
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... come into ? No , it cannot be said you are . ' That hard - faced gentleman , a wit ! Why , nature wrote on his fanatic forehead fifty years ago , ' Wit never comes , that comes to all . ' I should be as scandalised at a bon mot issuing ...
... come into ? No , it cannot be said you are . ' That hard - faced gentleman , a wit ! Why , nature wrote on his fanatic forehead fifty years ago , ' Wit never comes , that comes to all . ' I should be as scandalised at a bon mot issuing ...
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... come to Stowey ; obstacles , strong as death , prevent me at present ; maybe I may be able to come before the year is out ; believe me , I will come as soon as I can , but I dread naming a probable time . It depends on fifty things ...
... come to Stowey ; obstacles , strong as death , prevent me at present ; maybe I may be able to come before the year is out ; believe me , I will come as soon as I can , but I dread naming a probable time . It depends on fifty things ...
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... comes ten - fold better recommended to the heart , comes there more like a neighbour or familiar , than thousands of Hamnels and Zillahs and Madelons . I ' Be thou her comforter , who art the widow's friend ; ' beg you will send me the ...
... comes ten - fold better recommended to the heart , comes there more like a neighbour or familiar , than thousands of Hamnels and Zillahs and Madelons . I ' Be thou her comforter , who art the widow's friend ; ' beg you will send me the ...
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... come very thick . I am so taken up with one yesterday's dissertation on Mr. Wyndham's thing or other , that I cannot pick out ( I will unhappy composition . It must have been not say time , but ) fitting times to write to the death ...
... come very thick . I am so taken up with one yesterday's dissertation on Mr. Wyndham's thing or other , that I cannot pick out ( I will unhappy composition . It must have been not say time , but ) fitting times to write to the death ...
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... come to see me , mount up to the top of the stairs - I hope you are not asthmatical - and come in flannel , for it's ... comes upon me ( like a murderer's conscience ) about midnight , and vexes me for many hours . I have succes- sively ...
... come to see me , mount up to the top of the stairs - I hope you are not asthmatical - and come in flannel , for it's ... comes upon me ( like a murderer's conscience ) about midnight , and vexes me for many hours . I have succes- sively ...
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Página 457 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ;' and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees smote one against another.
Página 390 - ... a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself, and not another - would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present...
Página 598 - While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination quite, And their hasty wrath let fall, To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee.
Página 67 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Página 414 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, " That is Mr ." A rap, between familiarity and respect, that demands, and at the same time seems to despair of entertainment. He entereth smiling and embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time, when the table is full.
Página 469 - It strengthened and knit our compact closer. We could never have been what we have been to each other if we had always had the sufficiency which you now complain of. The resisting power — those natural dilations of the youthful spirit which circumstances cannot straiten — with us are long since passed away.
Página 414 - With half the familiarity, he might pass for a casual dependant ; with more boldness, he would be in no danger of being taken for what he is. He is too humble for a friend ; yet taketh on him more state than befits a client. He is a worse guest than a country tenant, inasmuch as he bringeth up no rent ; yet 'tis odds, from his garb and demeanour, that your guests take him for one.
Página 383 - JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least. His old clients look for him among the pens ; and missing him, reproach the altered feast of St. Bartholomew, and the glory of Smithfield departed for ever.
Página 326 - THE human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Página 65 - Knowledge insignificant and vapid as Mrs. B.'s books convey, it seems, must come to a child in the shape of knowledge, and his empty noddle must be turned with conceit of his own powers when he has learnt, that a horse is an animal, and Billy is better than a horse, and such like ; instead of that beautiful interest in wild tales, which made the child a man, while all the time he suspected himself to be no bigger than a child.