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... doubting that the purest philanthropy actuated these counsels , I thanked my shock - headed friend , and asked carelessly to whom the park belonged . " To Muster Trevanion , the great parliament man , PART FIFTH. ...
... doubting that the purest philanthropy actuated these counsels , I thanked my shock - headed friend , and asked carelessly to whom the park belonged . " To Muster Trevanion , the great parliament man , PART FIFTH. ...
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... Trevanion : he's but a trim- mer - milk and water , -no horator , -not the right sort , you understand ? " Perfectly satisfied that I understood nothing about it , I smiled , and said , " Oh yes ; " and slipping on my knapsack ...
... Trevanion : he's but a trim- mer - milk and water , -no horator , -not the right sort , you understand ? " Perfectly satisfied that I understood nothing about it , I smiled , and said , " Oh yes ; " and slipping on my knapsack ...
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... Trevanion must be a rich man ? " said I. " O ay , rich eno ' ! " grumbled my guide . 66 And , ” said I , surveying the extent of shrubbery or dressed ground through which our way wound , now emerging into lawns and glades , now belted ...
... Trevanion must be a rich man ? " said I. " O ay , rich eno ' ! " grumbled my guide . 66 And , ” said I , surveying the extent of shrubbery or dressed ground through which our way wound , now emerging into lawns and glades , now belted ...
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... Trevanion here much ? " 66 ' Ay , ay — I don't mean to say that he goes away altogether , but it ain't as it wor in my day , when the Hogtons lived here all the year round in their warm house , not that one . " Good old woman , and ...
... Trevanion here much ? " 66 ' Ay , ay — I don't mean to say that he goes away altogether , but it ain't as it wor in my day , when the Hogtons lived here all the year round in their warm house , not that one . " Good old woman , and ...
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... Trevanion you mean ? " " Yes . " 66 Well , I daresay people say so . This is the way . " And he led me down a little glen away from the fall . Everybody must have observed , that after he has in- curred or escaped a great danger , his ...
... Trevanion you mean ? " " Yes . " 66 Well , I daresay people say so . This is the way . " And he led me down a little glen away from the fall . Everybody must have observed , that after he has in- curred or escaped a great danger , his ...
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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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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.