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... passed their youth near the sea - coast , are generally superstitious . She had a wonderful budget of fables . Before I was six years old , I was erudite in that primi- tive literature , in which the legends of all nations are traced to ...
... passed their youth near the sea - coast , are generally superstitious . She had a wonderful budget of fables . Before I was six years old , I was erudite in that primi- tive literature , in which the legends of all nations are traced to ...
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... passing his handkerchief over his eyes— “ You have found the two fairies ! " Oh how proud , how overjoyed I was , when , after placing vase and flower on the window - sill , I plucked my mother by the gown , and made her follow me to ...
... passing his handkerchief over his eyes— “ You have found the two fairies ! " Oh how proud , how overjoyed I was , when , after placing vase and flower on the window - sill , I plucked my mother by the gown , and made her follow me to ...
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... passed a sward of green , on which sundry little boys were engaged upon the lapidation of a lame duck . It seemed that the duck was to have been taken to market , It when it was discovered not only to be lame , THE CAXTONS . 59.
... passed a sward of green , on which sundry little boys were engaged upon the lapidation of a lame duck . It seemed that the duck was to have been taken to market , It when it was discovered not only to be lame , THE CAXTONS . 59.
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... passed into malice . At some moments , indeed , the vein ran into eloquence ; and with some fine heroic sentiment in his old books , his stooping form rose erect , his eye flashed ; and you saw that he had not been originally formed and ...
... passed into malice . At some moments , indeed , the vein ran into eloquence ; and with some fine heroic sentiment in his old books , his stooping form rose erect , his eye flashed ; and you saw that he had not been originally formed and ...
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... passed , and fancied I could carry you again in my arms , and that I should again coax you to say ' God bless papa . ' I write now between laughing and crying . Well , well ! You cannot be what you were , but you are still my A FAMILY ...
... passed , and fancied I could carry you again in my arms , and that I should again coax you to say ' God bless papa . ' I write now between laughing and crying . Well , well ! You cannot be what you were , but you are still my A FAMILY ...
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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.