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... 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 , and ...
... 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 , and ...
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... might outlive my time , so that at least these lines might remain a record of the excellence of the Mother , and the gratitude of the Son . E. L. B. LONDON : January 4 , 1840 . PELHAM ; OR , ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN . CHAPTER vi ...
... might outlive my time , so that at least these lines might remain a record of the excellence of the Mother , and the gratitude of the Son . E. L. B. LONDON : January 4 , 1840 . PELHAM ; OR , ADVENTURES OF A GENTLEMAN . CHAPTER vi ...
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... mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer . Mr. Pelham was a moderate Whig , and gave sumptuous dinners ; -Lady Francis was a woman of taste , and particularly fond of diamonds and old china . Vulgar people know nothing of the ...
... mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer . Mr. Pelham was a moderate Whig , and gave sumptuous dinners ; -Lady Francis was a woman of taste , and particularly fond of diamonds and old china . Vulgar people know nothing of the ...
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... mother received nine hundred people in a Turkish tent . were equally fortunate , the Greek and the Turk ; my father's horse lost , in consequence of which he pocketed five thousand pounds ; and my mother looked so charming as a sultana ...
... mother received nine hundred people in a Turkish tent . were equally fortunate , the Greek and the Turk ; my father's horse lost , in consequence of which he pocketed five thousand pounds ; and my mother looked so charming as a sultana ...
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... mother to conceive an aversion to diamonds , and an indifference to china monsters . CHAPTER II Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness And stand too much on seeming . If arts and ...
... mother to conceive an aversion to diamonds , and an indifference to china monsters . CHAPTER II Tell arts they have no soundness , But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness And stand too much on seeming . If arts and ...
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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...