Fielding; Or, Society: Atticus; Or, The Retired Statesman: and St. Lawrence, Volume 2Carey, 1837 - English fiction |
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... pleased with many things I had seen , displeased with few , and , on the whole , much satisfied with my tour , which I thought had afforded more variety than London could have sup- plied , -when my door was opened by a servant whom I ...
... pleased with many things I had seen , displeased with few , and , on the whole , much satisfied with my tour , which I thought had afforded more variety than London could have sup- plied , -when my door was opened by a servant whom I ...
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... pleased to appear , at least to love my company ; and perhaps at that early and ingenious age he was sincere . I certainly preferred him to all the world , both then and for a long time afterwards . How much this was owing to his merit ...
... pleased to appear , at least to love my company ; and perhaps at that early and ingenious age he was sincere . I certainly preferred him to all the world , both then and for a long time afterwards . How much this was owing to his merit ...
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... pleased him ; went into the world when it pleased him ; and returned to solitude when the world pleased him no longer . His happiness might be summed up in two predicates - natural cheerfulness , and blamelessness of conduct : if we ...
... pleased him ; went into the world when it pleased him ; and returned to solitude when the world pleased him no longer . His happiness might be summed up in two predicates - natural cheerfulness , and blamelessness of conduct : if we ...
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... pleased myself , but sufficiently curious to resolve to see him again . I had afterwards several interviews with him , which seemed to give him as much pleasure as his jaded mind was capable of receiving ; and certainly a great deal to ...
... pleased myself , but sufficiently curious to resolve to see him again . I had afterwards several interviews with him , which seemed to give him as much pleasure as his jaded mind was capable of receiving ; and certainly a great deal to ...
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... , and not yet old , he might have taken a leading station in the world , if he had pleased . " “ And did he not please ? " 66 Why , at first it looked like it . His house was in Berkely - square ; he had a villa at Hampton OR , SOCIETY .
... , and not yet old , he might have taken a leading station in the world , if he had pleased . " “ And did he not please ? " 66 Why , at first it looked like it . His house was in Berkely - square ; he had a villa at Hampton OR , SOCIETY .
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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...