Novels: Pelham. 1895G. Routledge & sons limited, 1895 |
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... DEAR MOTHER , IN inscribing with your beloved and honoured name this Collection of my Works , I could wish that the fruits of my manhood were worthier of the tender and anxious pains bestowed upon my education in youth . Left yet young ...
... DEAR MOTHER , IN inscribing with your beloved and honoured name this Collection of my Works , I could wish that the fruits of my manhood were worthier of the tender and anxious pains bestowed upon my education in youth . Left yet young ...
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... dear , that in all the friends you make at present , you look to the advantage you can derive from them hereafter ; that is what we call know- ledge of the world , and it is to get the knowledge of the world that you are sent to a ...
... dear , that in all the friends you make at present , you look to the advantage you can derive from them hereafter ; that is what we call know- ledge of the world , and it is to get the knowledge of the world that you are sent to a ...
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... dear , what a pretty name . Is he handsome ? ' ' Rather elegant than handsome , ' was the unsatisfactory reply , couched in a slow , pompous accent , which I imme- diately recognised to belong to Lady Harriet Garrett . ' Can we make ...
... dear , what a pretty name . Is he handsome ? ' ' Rather elegant than handsome , ' was the unsatisfactory reply , couched in a slow , pompous accent , which I imme- diately recognised to belong to Lady Harriet Garrett . ' Can we make ...
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... my mother my intended visit to Garrett Park , and the second day after my arrival there came the following letter : - 1 Oh ! what a beautiful thing is - the Post - office . ' MY DEAR HENRY , -I was very glad to 18 PELHAM ;
... my mother my intended visit to Garrett Park , and the second day after my arrival there came the following letter : - 1 Oh ! what a beautiful thing is - the Post - office . ' MY DEAR HENRY , -I was very glad to 18 PELHAM ;
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... dear , that those Garretts are in them- selves anything but unexceptionable ; you will , therefore , take care not to be too intimate ; it is , however , a very good house most whom you meet there are worth know- ing , for one thing or ...
... dear , that those Garretts are in them- selves anything but unexceptionable ; you will , therefore , take care not to be too intimate ; it is , however , a very good house most whom you meet there are worth know- ing , for one thing or ...
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Aberton acquaintance admirable answered appeared beautiful Bedos better called CHAPTER character Cheltenham Chester Chester Park Chitterling Clandonald Clutterbuck colour companion confession conversation countenance cried Curaçoa dark Dartmore Dawson dear dinner discovered door dress Duchesse Ellen England entered eyes favour fear feeling fellow fortune Garrett Park gentleman Glanville's Guloseton hand heard heart Heaven Henry Pelham honour hope horse hour imagine Job Jonson Lady Harriet Lady Roseville laugh looked Lord Dawton Lord Vincent Lufton Madame d'Anville mind Monsieur Margot morning mother nature never Newmarket night once Palais Royal Paris passed passion pause Pelham perhaps Perpignan person pleasure poor replied returned rose round Russelton scarcely seemed Sir John Tyrrell Sir Lionel Sir Reginald Glanville smile soon taste tell thing Thornton thought tion tone took turned Tyrrell's vanity voice wish woman words Wormwood young
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Página 221 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 22 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 371 - 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 9 - Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming, Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming. If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth.
Página 433 - It would have saved me much trouble, and your worthy friend, Mr. Fib Fakescrew, some pain, if you had left the door open — instead of shutting me up with your club, as you are pleased to call it!
Página 371 - 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?— PB SHELLEY.
Página 214 - Of my mortality, my youth has acted Some scenes of vanity, drawn out at length By varied pleasures — sweetened in the mixture, But tragical in issue. Beauty, pomp, With every sensuality our giddiness Doth frame an idol — are inconstant friends When any troubled passion makes us halt On the unguarded castle of the mind.
Página 86 - ... golden wig (the duchesse never liked me to play with her hair) was on a block close by, and on another table was a set of teeth, d'une blancheur eblouissante.
Página 22 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Página 161 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil...