Fielding; Or, Society: Atticus; Or, The Retired Statesman: and St. Lawrence, Volume 2Carey, 1837 - English fiction |
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... true , " I observed , " and no doubt your village profits by your good sense . I wish all gentlemen who reside in the country were like you . " " I am no gentleman , " replied he , bowing , however , at the compliment , which , for the ...
... true , " I observed , " and no doubt your village profits by your good sense . I wish all gentlemen who reside in the country were like you . " " I am no gentleman , " replied he , bowing , however , at the compliment , which , for the ...
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... true , that all her Ladyship's friends are fools , or that all ladies of quality are Lady Grandboroughs . " " Both would be wrong , " I observed , fearing a breach of the peace ; for I saw something like incipient con- tempt and ...
... true , that all her Ladyship's friends are fools , or that all ladies of quality are Lady Grandboroughs . " " Both would be wrong , " I observed , fearing a breach of the peace ; for I saw something like incipient con- tempt and ...
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... not without its interest . You see I have the true Dorking breed , and am not a little envied for my success . I know I have been quizzed for this behind my back , by the dear Grandboroughs 32 FIELDING SECTION XVIII. ...
... not without its interest . You see I have the true Dorking breed , and am not a little envied for my success . I know I have been quizzed for this behind my back , by the dear Grandboroughs 32 FIELDING SECTION XVIII. ...
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... and exhibit neatness , cheer- fulness , and ease in their dwellings , it does not annoy , it rather adds to my content , to see theirs . In this we but follow the foundation of all true taste , Nature , OR , SOCIETY . 33.
... and exhibit neatness , cheer- fulness , and ease in their dwellings , it does not annoy , it rather adds to my content , to see theirs . In this we but follow the foundation of all true taste , Nature , OR , SOCIETY . 33.
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... true taste , Nature , —who certainly never meant us for solitary animals , like beasts of prey . My grandeur , therefore , is not at all diminish- ed because I have other fellow creatures besides ser- vants within ken . And yet , after ...
... true taste , Nature , —who certainly never meant us for solitary animals , like beasts of prey . My grandeur , therefore , is not at all diminish- ed because I have other fellow creatures besides ser- vants within ken . And yet , after ...
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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...