Reginald Dalton, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1823 - 337 páginas |
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... give a false idea of the nature of their intercourse ; for the truth is , that the solitary man neither had , nor wished to have , any better companion than his only child . His intellect stooped , but it was not ashamed - perhaps , it ...
... give a false idea of the nature of their intercourse ; for the truth is , that the solitary man neither had , nor wished to have , any better companion than his only child . His intellect stooped , but it was not ashamed - perhaps , it ...
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... give perfect satisfaction to his father ; and so far as mere scholarship went , perhaps there were not many youths of the same age , whose attain- ments would have entitled them to look down on Reginald Dalton at the opening of his ...
... give perfect satisfaction to his father ; and so far as mere scholarship went , perhaps there were not many youths of the same age , whose attain- ments would have entitled them to look down on Reginald Dalton at the opening of his ...
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... in the parish . Speak out , man , breathe the tender secret - I give ye my honour I shall respect your preserve . " " You're quizzing me , Frederick- 99 " You're blushing , Reginald- 66 92 Blushing ? Why BOOK I. CHAP . V. 51.
... in the parish . Speak out , man , breathe the tender secret - I give ye my honour I shall respect your preserve . " " You're quizzing me , Frederick- 99 " You're blushing , Reginald- 66 92 Blushing ? Why BOOK I. CHAP . V. 51.
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... give his ancle a twist in the crossing of a style , which unseasonable accident prevented him from arriving at Lannwell near so soon as he had otherwise done . Still , however , he was there a full hour before the time of dinner at ...
... give his ancle a twist in the crossing of a style , which unseasonable accident prevented him from arriving at Lannwell near so soon as he had otherwise done . Still , however , he was there a full hour before the time of dinner at ...
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... Give him a Spanish hat , with a falling red feather , and put the least thing in the world of a mustachio on his lip- 99 " Lord , how you rave , sister ! Why , I'll take my bodily oath , that he's no more like the Colonel than you are ...
... Give him a Spanish hat , with a falling red feather , and put the least thing in the world of a mustachio on his lip- 99 " Lord , how you rave , sister ! Why , I'll take my bodily oath , that he's no more like the Colonel than you are ...
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Alderman Barbara Dalton bawbees beautiful Bishop bless blush brother chair Charwell College course cousin John cried daugh dear dear boy dinner district of England Doctor of Divinity door Elizabeth Ellen eyes father feeling fellow Frederick Chisney gown Grypherwast Grypherwast-hall Hall hand happy head hear heard heart honour Jem Brank John Dalton Keith lative living look Lord Lucy ma'am Macdonald manciple merry England midst mild ale mind Miss Betty Miss Dalton nald never old gentleman old lady once Oxford pause perhaps poor pretty quoth Ralph Macdonald Regi Reginald Dalton Richard Dalton risum scarcely shew side Sir Charles Catline smile soon sort Squire Squire's sure Teddy Theed ther there's thing Thorwold thought tion tone truth Vicar of Lannwell voice walk Whig whisper window words young gentleman youth
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Página 145 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 145 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 130 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 24 - Tis one of those who needs must leave the path Of the world's business to go wild alone: His arms have a perpetual holiday ; The happy man will creep about the fields, Following his fancies by the hour, to bring Tears down his cheek, or solitary smiles Into his face, until the setting sun Write fool upon his forehead.
Página 264 - DO serious consequences ever attached or attributed to their occurrence. •}• " But to our story. Chisney and his companions, the wine of the Black Bear of Woodstock still fuming in their brains, were soon in the midst of the retreating togati ; and our friend Reginald, drest in the splendid attire of a Doctor of Physic, could scarcely, under all the circumstances, be blamed for following their guidance. Jem Brank stuck close to the party, wielding in his fist the fine goldlieaded cane of Mr Alderman...
Página 237 - We heard it quite distinctly, though the mist was so thick that we could see nothing. I cried then ; you may suppose how I cried ; and Ellen too, though she had never opened her lips before, cried as lustily as she could. Again the gun was fired, and again we answered at the top of our voices ; and then, God bless me ! — was there ever such a moment ? We heard the dashing of the oars, and a strong breeze lifted the mist like a curtain from before us, and there was a boat — a jolly ten-oar boat,...
Página 329 - When the chill Sirocco blows, And Winter tells a heavy tale, When pyes and daws, and rooks and crows, Do sit and curse the frosts and snows, Then give me ale,
Página 215 - KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill-match'd aims the Architect who plann'd (Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only) this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence ! — Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more : — So deem'd the man who fashion'd for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light...
Página 264 - It was now that a terrible conflict ensued — a conflict, the fury of which might have inspired lightness, vigour, and elasticity, even into the paragraphs of a Bentham, or the hexameters of a Southey — had either or both of these eminent persons been there to witness — better still had they been there to partake in, the genial phrenzy. It was now that
Página 266 - There the townsmen gave way; but being pursued with horrible oaths and blows as far as Carfax, they rallied again under the shadow of that sacred edifice ; and received there a welcome reinforcement from the purlieus of the Staffordshire Canal, and the ingenuous youth of Penny-farthing Street. Once more the tide of war was turned ; the gowned phalanx gave back — surly and slow, indeed, but still they did give back. On rolled the adverse and swelling tide with their 'few plain instincts and their...