The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... Author ; it is the first of his writings in which Humour has been employed less for the purpose of satire than in illustra- tion of amiable characters ; -it is the first , too , in which man has been viewed less in his active relations ...
... Author ; it is the first of his writings in which Humour has been employed less for the purpose of satire than in illustra- tion of amiable characters ; -it is the first , too , in which man has been viewed less in his active relations ...
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... author here observes that it is polite to express saluta- tion in certain minor distresses of nature . One should salute a gentleman in yawning , salute him in hiccuping , salute him in sneezing , salute him in coughing ; and that ...
... author here observes that it is polite to express saluta- tion in certain minor distresses of nature . One should salute a gentleman in yawning , salute him in hiccuping , salute him in sneezing , salute him in coughing ; and that ...
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... author ; and smiling more when I think that your Uncle Jack should have provoked me into so egregious an ambition . How- ever , I have read some passages of my book to your mother , and she says , ' it is vastly fine , ' which is en ...
... author ; and smiling more when I think that your Uncle Jack should have provoked me into so egregious an ambition . How- ever , I have read some passages of my book to your mother , and she says , ' it is vastly fine , ' which is en ...
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... author was every now and then disturbed by a twinge of remorse ? Half an hour after breakfast , the brothers set off arm - in - arm ; and I followed , a little apart , admiring how sturdily the old soldier got over the ground , in spite ...
... author was every now and then disturbed by a twinge of remorse ? Half an hour after breakfast , the brothers set off arm - in - arm ; and I followed , a little apart , admiring how sturdily the old soldier got over the ground , in spite ...
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... author or a prime minister . ' So it is with all the active sons of the world . To push on is the law of nature . And you can no more say to men and to nations than to children — Sit still , and don't wear out your shoes ! ' " " Then ...
... author or a prime minister . ' So it is with all the active sons of the world . To push on is the law of nature . And you can no more say to men and to nations than to children — Sit still , and don't wear out your shoes ! ' " " Then ...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
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amongst answered asked Austin Author Blackwood's Magazine bless brother brow called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child cried Crown Octavo door drew earwigs Edition eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father Fcap felt fortune garden gentleman GEORGE HENRY LEWES Greek hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hurdy-gurdy Keith Johnston Kitty knew Lady Ellinor laugh leave lived London look Lord Rainsforth ma'am member of Parliament mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never once pause Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Puss in Boots quoth round saffron Savoyard scholar seemed sigh Sir Sedley Beaudesert Sisty smile speak Squills stood STRANGER talk tell thing thought tion took truth turned Uncle Jack Uncle Roland Vivian voice volume walk WILLIAM BLACKWOOD William Caxton window woman word young youth
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Página 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 331 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Página 25 - I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, — it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. "Ah...
Página 331 - Caxtons.' Passion, in him, comprehended -many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural advantages of this poor boy— his beauty, his readiness, the daring spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere— had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claims to admiration into prejudices...
Página 40 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.