The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... . Content is like that humour in the crystal , on which Claudian has lavished the wonder of a child and the fancies of a Poet- " Vivis gemma tumescit aquis . " E. B. L. THE CAXTONS . Ꮲ Ꭺ Ꭱ Ꭲ FIRST . CHAPTER vi PREFACE .
... . Content is like that humour in the crystal , on which Claudian has lavished the wonder of a child and the fancies of a Poet- " Vivis gemma tumescit aquis . " E. B. L. THE CAXTONS . Ꮲ Ꭺ Ꭱ Ꭲ FIRST . CHAPTER vi PREFACE .
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... my father's study . Encountering the footman in the passage , " John , ” said he , " take supper into your master's room , and make us some punch , will you ? — stiffish ! " CHAPTER II . " MR CAXTON , how on earth 6 THE CAXTONS .
... my father's study . Encountering the footman in the passage , " John , ” said he , " take supper into your master's room , and make us some punch , will you ? — stiffish ! " CHAPTER II . " MR CAXTON , how on earth 6 THE CAXTONS .
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A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER II . " MR CAXTON , how on earth did you ever come to marry ? " asked Mr Squills , abruptly , with his feet on the hob , while stirring up his punch . That was a ... CHAPTER II. ...
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER II . " MR CAXTON , how on earth did you ever come to marry ? " asked Mr Squills , abruptly , with his feet on the hob , while stirring up his punch . That was a ... CHAPTER II. ...
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A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER III . THAT I was a very wonderful child , I take for granted ; but , nevertheless , it was not of my own knowledge that I came into possession of the ... CHAPTER III. ...
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER III . THAT I was a very wonderful child , I take for granted ; but , nevertheless , it was not of my own knowledge that I came into possession of the ... CHAPTER III. ...
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... of an Anachronism . " My mother burst into tears . But the evil was irremediable . An anachronism I was , and an ana- chronism I must continue to the end of the chapter . CHAPTER IV . " Of course , sir , you 18 THE CAXTONS .
... of an Anachronism . " My mother burst into tears . But the evil was irremediable . An anachronism I was , and an ana- chronism I must continue to the end of the chapter . CHAPTER IV . " Of course , sir , you 18 THE CAXTONS .
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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.