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... not many wise , or learned , composed at that time the common stowage of a Margate packet . We were , I am afraid , a set of as unfledged Londoners , ( let our enemies give it a worse name , ) as Thames THE OLD MARGATE HOY . 31.
... not many wise , or learned , composed at that time the common stowage of a Margate packet . We were , I am afraid , a set of as unfledged Londoners , ( let our enemies give it a worse name , ) as Thames THE OLD MARGATE HOY . 31.
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... learned that he was go- ing to Margate , with the hope of being admitted into the Infirmary there for sea bathing . His disease was a scrofula , which appeared to have eaten all over him . He expressed great hopes of a cure ; and when ...
... learned that he was go- ing to Margate , with the hope of being admitted into the Infirmary there for sea bathing . His disease was a scrofula , which appeared to have eaten all over him . He expressed great hopes of a cure ; and when ...
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... learned professors ; much less am I disposed , with some people , to deny its existence altogether as any inlet of knowledge that can be depended upon . I believe that there is , or may be , an art to " read the mind's construction in ...
... learned professors ; much less am I disposed , with some people , to deny its existence altogether as any inlet of knowledge that can be depended upon . I believe that there is , or may be , an art to " read the mind's construction in ...
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... learned doc- tor seeming to demur , as to a distemper which he had never read of , Dennis , ( who appears not to have been mad upon all subjects , ) rejoins with some warmth , that it was no distemper , but a noble art ! that he had sat ...
... learned doc- tor seeming to demur , as to a distemper which he had never read of , Dennis , ( who appears not to have been mad upon all subjects , ) rejoins with some warmth , that it was no distemper , but a noble art ! that he had sat ...
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... learned , to my infinite mortification , that the mother and daughter were set off on a journey to a distant part of the country , to visit a relation , and were not expected to return in less than four months . Stunned by this blow ...
... learned , to my infinite mortification , that the mother and daughter were set off on a journey to a distant part of the country , to visit a relation , and were not expected to return in less than four months . Stunned by this blow ...
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Page 139 - Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done?
Page 149 - So far from a wish to roam, I would have drawn, methought, still closer the fences of my chosen prison ; and have been hemmed in by a yet securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh I so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Page 91 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on, on the stage— because a word lost would have been a chasm, which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then — and I appeal to you whether, as a woman, I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house? The...
Page 87 - I wish the good old times would come again," she said, "when we were not quite so rich. I do not mean, that I want to be poor; but there was a middle state" — so she was pleased to ramble on, — "in which I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.
Page 94 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 88 - Do you remember the brown suit, which you made to hang upon you, till all your friends cried shame upon you, it grew so threadbare — and all because of that folio Beaumont and Fletcher, which you dragged home late at night from Barker's in Covent Garden?
Page 160 - Shall I be thought fantastical if I confess that the names of some of our poets sound sweeter, and have a finer relish to the ear — to mine, at least — than that of Milton or of Shakspeare?
Page 130 - I began with treating half seriously, I should have fallen upon a recital so eminently painful ; but this theme of poor relationship is replete with so much matter for tragic as well as comic associations, that it is difficult to keep the account distinct without blending. The earliest impressions which I received on this matter, are certainly not attended with anything painful, or very humiliating, in the recalling.
Page 158 - ... eterne." But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Page 125 - He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think