London Society, Band 42James Hogg, Florence Marryat William Clowes and Sons, 1882 |
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... leave the Temple , I hope it will be by Mitre Court . ' When a singularly matter - of- fact gentleman had related a story in which the listeners had failed , after all their efforts , to discover the faintest spark of humour , Sir ...
... leave the Temple , I hope it will be by Mitre Court . ' When a singularly matter - of- fact gentleman had related a story in which the listeners had failed , after all their efforts , to discover the faintest spark of humour , Sir ...
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... leave to interrogate you , and to request you will tell us , without duplicity or mental reser- vation , upon what principle you conduct your dramatic demeanour . Is your mode of acting , by which you obtain so much celebrity , the ...
... leave to interrogate you , and to request you will tell us , without duplicity or mental reser- vation , upon what principle you conduct your dramatic demeanour . Is your mode of acting , by which you obtain so much celebrity , the ...
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... leave the box ; for it is necessary that jury . men should hear both sides . ' Gilbert A'Beckett celebrated his elevation to the office of magis- trate at the Greenwich Police- court by a characteristic pun . A gentleman came before him ...
... leave the box ; for it is necessary that jury . men should hear both sides . ' Gilbert A'Beckett celebrated his elevation to the office of magis- trate at the Greenwich Police- court by a characteristic pun . A gentleman came before him ...
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... leave to escort her home . He could not at once make up his mind whether it would be best to do this or to keep to his former plan of following her . He moved forward in an undecided way , and paused a moment quite near her in a ray of ...
... leave to escort her home . He could not at once make up his mind whether it would be best to do this or to keep to his former plan of following her . He moved forward in an undecided way , and paused a moment quite near her in a ray of ...
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... this little scene , stood looking for another glimpse of her sister . She was so much interested that she had not heard the keeper leave the room , and now she was not come aware that any one else had into it , 54 Valentina .
... this little scene , stood looking for another glimpse of her sister . She was so much interested that she had not heard the keeper leave the room , and now she was not come aware that any one else had into it , 54 Valentina .
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Abercarne Aennchen answered asked Aurélie beautiful better Billy Bishop's wife brother called Charles Lamb Charnwood Forest Corean cousin Cradock Crumlin dear Dick dinner dolmens door Douglas Jerrold Eastbourne exclaimed eyes face father feel felt followed Frank Hartless gave gentleman Gévrol girl give Golding hand happy head hear heard heart hope John kind knew Lady Julia Lady Valentina laugh Léon Gozlan light live Llanhilleth looked Lord Lord Malmesbury marriage married Mary ment mind morning mother ness never night once passed pleasant poor present pretty Princess replied Roger Miles round seemed seen side sister smile Stoneycourt stood suppose sure talk tell thing thought tigress tion told took town Triggs tumulus turned Valen voice walked Wanderoo wife William Golding wish woman wonder words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 617 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 194 - I am going to stand godfather; I don't like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions ; I shall certainly disgrace the font. I was at Hazlitt's marriage, and had like to have been turned out several times during the ceremony. Anything awful makes me laugh.
Seite 187 - As she emphatically observed, cards were cards ; and if I ever saw unmingled distaste in her fine last-century countenance, it was at the airs of a young gentleman of a literary turn, who had been with difficulty persuaded to take a hand; and who, in his excess of...
Seite 511 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Seite 187 - These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table. One of these flies will spoil a whole pot. Of such it may be said that they do not play at cards, but only play at playing at them. Sarah Battle was none of that breed. She detested them, as I do, from her heart and soul, and would not, save upon a striking emergency, willingly seat herself at the same table with them. She loved a thoroughpaced partner, a determined enemy. She took, and gave, no concessions. She hated favours.
Seite 14 - I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.
Seite 15 - CONSIDER what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
Seite 191 - ... prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, — a more intolerable dun upon your pride, — a drawback upon success, — a rebuke to your rising, — a stain in your blood, — a blot on your 'scutcheon, — a rent in your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles...
Seite 191 - Agathocles' pot, a Mordecai in your gate, a Lazarus at your door, a lion in your path, a frog in your chamber, a fly in your ointment, a mote in your eye, a triumph to your enemy, an apology to your friends, the one thing not needful, the hail in harvest, the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet.
Seite 189 - I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts — a grace before Milton — a grace before Shakespeare — a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading the "Fairy Queen?