Fielding; Or, Society: Atticus; Or, The Retired Statesman: and St. Lawrence, Volume 2Carey, 1837 - English fiction |
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... once a year ; it is almost a Saturnalia . Hence , there is no room for disguise ; the great appear in an undress ; the little are little better for dressing ; ( I speak of their minds , not their bodies : ) - and thus all is nature and ...
... once a year ; it is almost a Saturnalia . Hence , there is no room for disguise ; the great appear in an undress ; the little are little better for dressing ; ( I speak of their minds , not their bodies : ) - and thus all is nature and ...
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... once . He had , in fact , accepted the invitation of Lady Grandborough , seconded by Lady Wilhelmina , to come down to help them to , what they called , satisfy the rustics , and faire l'aimable with them- selves ; and as he had no ...
... once . He had , in fact , accepted the invitation of Lady Grandborough , seconded by Lady Wilhelmina , to come down to help them to , what they called , satisfy the rustics , and faire l'aimable with them- selves ; and as he had no ...
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... once in two or three years , just before election time ; for you see , our ' Squire always supports my Lord's friend . " " Upon my word , " said I , " I wish many great peo- ple , or those who think themselves so , would take the lesson ...
... once in two or three years , just before election time ; for you see , our ' Squire always supports my Lord's friend . " " Upon my word , " said I , " I wish many great peo- ple , or those who think themselves so , would take the lesson ...
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... once upon a public walk of lymes and sycamores , from which it was only separated by a low paling . But the house had an am- ple range of many windows , showing good rooms com- manding the walk , with gardens behind and at each end ...
... once upon a public walk of lymes and sycamores , from which it was only separated by a low paling . But the house had an am- ple range of many windows , showing good rooms com- manding the walk , with gardens behind and at each end ...
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... once said , ' I am not a metaphysician , and have not the eyes of a cat , to see in the dark ; nor a mathematician , with those of an eagle , to see in too much light . But the world ! men ! manners ! human nature ! These charm me in ...
... once said , ' I am not a metaphysician , and have not the eyes of a cat , to see in the dark ; nor a mathematician , with those of an eagle , to see in too much light . But the world ! men ! manners ! human nature ! These charm me in ...
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Page 178 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 69 - I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us: Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Page 84 - The school's lone porch, with reverend mosses gray, Just tells the pensive pilgrim where it lay. Mute is the bell that rung at peep of dawn, Quickening my truant feet across the lawn ; Unheard the shout that rent the noontide air When the slow dial gave a pause to care.
Page 37 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an alms-man's gown, My...
Page 79 - E'en the last lingering fiction of the brain, The church-yard ghost, is now at rest again; And all these wayward wanderings of my youth Fly Reason's power and shun the light of truth.
Page 103 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 131 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 48 - By sighs, and tears, and grief alone: I greet her as the fiend, to whom belong The vulture's ravening beak, the raven's funeral song.
Page 122 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 74 - Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends ; If learn'd, their pride, if weak, their zeal she dreads, And their hearts...