Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... was in , a county ball was the last place in which I could have expected to meet him ; but the footing he was upon with the two . noble families who B 3 OR , SOCIETY . 9 tions of arts or arms, learning or eloquence; ...
... was in , a county ball was the last place in which I could have expected to meet him ; but the footing he was upon with the two . noble families who B 3 OR , SOCIETY . 9 tions of arts or arms, learning or eloquence; ...
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... expected a change , I own the event astounded me , and filled me with grief . it happened only a few weeks afterwards , I will here note the particulars of the transaction ; having been unfortunately made the too authentic depo- sitory ...
... expected a change , I own the event astounded me , and filled me with grief . it happened only a few weeks afterwards , I will here note the particulars of the transaction ; having been unfortunately made the too authentic depo- sitory ...
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... expected ; the wonder was , it had not happened before . He had no vices , to be sure , but he had no particular virtues . ( Such was now the talk . ) He had usurped a place in society which did not belong to him ! why did he not 72 ...
... expected ; the wonder was , it had not happened before . He had no vices , to be sure , but he had no particular virtues . ( Such was now the talk . ) He had usurped a place in society which did not belong to him ! why did he not 72 ...
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... expected to find , and such I actually found , this beautiful but almost deserted city . Invalids alone were now its principal visitors , and I hoped to reap a harvest of observation . The first person I saw gave me some promise ; for ...
... expected to find , and such I actually found , this beautiful but almost deserted city . Invalids alone were now its principal visitors , and I hoped to reap a harvest of observation . The first person I saw gave me some promise ; for ...
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... expected to live up to the rack - rent . Half my tenants were adven- turers who failed ; others tore my soul out for repairs ; the lightning set fire to one farm , and incendiaries to another ; there were insurances I could not recover ...
... expected to live up to the rack - rent . Half my tenants were adven- turers who failed ; others tore my soul out for repairs ; the lightning set fire to one farm , and incendiaries to another ; there were insurances I could not recover ...
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Page 191 - 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 105 - 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 55 - 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 120 - 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 118 - Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labour, in their place : Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, Or disappear'd. and left the first behind. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, But felt th...
Page 160 - 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 58 - You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you, face to face. But, courage ! for around that boisterous brook The mountains have all opened out themselves, And made a hidden valley of their own.
Page 72 - 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 147 - And schemes of state involve th' uneasy mind ; Faction embroils the world, and every tongue Is mov'd by flattery, or with scandal hung : Friendship, for sylvan shades, the palace flies, Where all must yield to interest's dearer ties ; Each rival Machiavel with envy burns, And honesty forsakes them all by turns...
Page 147 - You, who the sweets of rural life have known, Despise th' ungrateful hurry of the Town; In Windsor groves your easy hours employ, And undisturb'd, yourself and Muse enjoy : Thames listens to thy strains, and silent flows, And no rude wind through rustling osiers blows, While all his wondering nymphs around thee throng, To hear the Sirens warble in thy song.