Pelham; or, The adventures of a gentleman [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. |
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... society every one else would have coveted as the summum bonum of worldly distinction . As for me , feeling any thing but social , I soon left the ill - matched pair , and rode into the other park . Just as I entered it , I perceived ...
... society every one else would have coveted as the summum bonum of worldly distinction . As for me , feeling any thing but social , I soon left the ill - matched pair , and rode into the other park . Just as I entered it , I perceived ...
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... society . " No , " said the old beau , who was entitled Mr. Clarendon , " society is very different from what it was in my younger days . You remember , 40 PELHAM ; OR ,
... society . " No , " said the old beau , who was entitled Mr. Clarendon , " society is very different from what it was in my younger days . You remember , 40 PELHAM ; OR ,
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... society of the present day ! " And the three dowagers sighed amen , to this remark . " And yet , " said I , " since I may safely say so here without being suspected of a personality in the shape of a compliment , don't you think , that ...
... society of the present day ! " And the three dowagers sighed amen , to this remark . " And yet , " said I , " since I may safely say so here without being suspected of a personality in the shape of a compliment , don't you think , that ...
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... society . If one does not know the person beside whom one has the happiness of sitting , what possible subject can one broach with any prudence . I put politics aside , because , thanks to party spirit , we rarely meet those we are ...
... society . If one does not know the person beside whom one has the happiness of sitting , what possible subject can one broach with any prudence . I put politics aside , because , thanks to party spirit , we rarely meet those we are ...
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... society - for nothing is so plebeian as imitation . " " A very evident truism ! " said Clarendon , " What I lament most , is the injudicious method certain persons took to change this order of things , and diminish the désagrémens of ...
... society - for nothing is so plebeian as imitation . " " A very evident truism ! " said Clarendon , " What I lament most , is the injudicious method certain persons took to change this order of things , and diminish the désagrémens of ...
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Página 202 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 358 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 354 - She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Página 78 - Sir; perhaps you think I should not class myself among gentlemen; and yet I have as good a right to the name as most of the set. I belong to no trade —I follow no calling: I rove where I list, and rest where I please: in short, I know no occupation but my indolence, and no law but my will. Now, Sir, may I not call myself a gentleman ? " " Of a surety ! " quoth I. " You seem to me to hold a middle rank between a half-pay captain and the king of the gipsies.
Página 357 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Página 83 - Too candid by half," thought I. "This man is certainly a rascal ; but what is that to me? I shall never see him again;" and true to my love of never losing an opportunity of ascertaining individual character, I observed that I thought such an acquaintance very valuable, especially if he were in trade ; it was a pity, therefore, for my sake, that my companion had informed me that he followed no calling. " Why, sir," said he, " I am occasionally in Smplovment : my nominal profession is that of a broker.
Página 357 - ... concerning ancient manners and customs, the progress of arts and sciences, and the various branches of antiquity, we have never seen a mine so rich as these volumes. The variety of Pepys' tastes and pursuits led him into almost every department of life.
Página 356 - It connects, in many instances, the new with the old nobility, and it will in all cases show the cause which has influenced the revival of an extinct dignity in a new creation. It should be particularly noticed, that this new work appertains nearly as much to extant as to extinct persons of distinction; for though dignities pass away, it rarely occurs that whole families do.
Página 84 - I was intended for a silversmith," answered my friend, " but Providence willed it otherwise; they taught me from childhood to repeat the Lord's Prayer; Heaven heard me, and delivered me from temptation, — there is, indeed, something terribly seducing in the face of a silver spoon!