Home as Found: Sequel to Homeward BoundAppleton, 1873 - 507 páginas |
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Abbott agreeable American answer appearance Aristabulus asked Assheton baronet beautiful believe better Bloomfield Bragg called Captain Ducie Captain Truck certainly character commodore composite order confess cousin Jack cried dare say dear Dodge England English Eve Effingham exclaimed eyes fancy father favor feel gentlemen Grace Hajji hand happy Hawker hear heard heart HOME AS FOUND hope Howel Hudson Square inquired John Effing John Effingham knew lake laughing look Lucius Junius Brutus ma'am Mademoiselle Viefville manner marriage married matter means mind Miss Effingham Miss Eve Miss Ring Miss Van Cortlandt mother nature never notions observed oi polloi opinion passed Paul person Pindar Powis respect returned scarcely seen Sir George Templemore smile society soon speak surprise taste Templeton things thought tion town true truth village whole party Wigwam wish woman young lady
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Página 341 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Página 117 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Página 246 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. Cade. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
Página 116 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
Página 142 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Página 138 - The whole country is in such a constant state of mutation, that I can only liken it to the game of children, in which, as one quits his corner, another runs into it, and he that finds no corner to get into, is the laughingstock of the others.
Página 24 - I think you are mistaken, Miss Effingham, for the public sentiment, just now, runs almost exclusively and popularly into the Grecian school. We build little besides temples for our churches, our banks, our taverns, our court-houses, and our dwellings. A friend of mine has just built a brewery on the model of the Temple of the Winds.
Página 133 - The fault just now is perhaps to consult the books too rigidly, and to trust too little to invention; for no architecture, and especially no domestic architecture,, can ever be above serious reproach, until climate, the uses of the edifice, and the situation, are respected as leading considerations. Nothing can be uglier, per se, than a Swiss cottage, or anything more beautiful under its precise circumstances.