The New Road to Ruin: A Novel, Volum 1R. Bentley, 1833 - 891 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... conquest , and a lucky hit is more than half the matter . Drink and be merry . " He took a flask of spirits from his bosom , and drank largely , then jumping up , and bidding Fen lead the way to the cloisters , he THE NEW ROAD TO RUIN . 7.
... conquest , and a lucky hit is more than half the matter . Drink and be merry . " He took a flask of spirits from his bosom , and drank largely , then jumping up , and bidding Fen lead the way to the cloisters , he THE NEW ROAD TO RUIN . 7.
Pàgina 21
... took her offered arm gaily , and they walked round the bower , Essex supporting , with playful hila- rity , an animated conversation on sentiment and feeling . But we must now return to Isaac , whose garrulity we interrupted in order ...
... took her offered arm gaily , and they walked round the bower , Essex supporting , with playful hila- rity , an animated conversation on sentiment and feeling . But we must now return to Isaac , whose garrulity we interrupted in order ...
Pàgina 66
... took off her veil , and bade her welcome , considering Maria always strange and eccentric , to say the least . She did not infer that there was any new con- ception or difficulty labouring in her breast . Maria looked distraite , and ...
... took off her veil , and bade her welcome , considering Maria always strange and eccentric , to say the least . She did not infer that there was any new con- ception or difficulty labouring in her breast . Maria looked distraite , and ...
Pàgina 74
... took the parch- ment , " consistent with my various and just claims , I will put my seal with my arms and supporters , " drawing it from a box . " Read it , Mr. Mason , " said Maria . Lord Darmaya had mislaid his spectacles , and his ...
... took the parch- ment , " consistent with my various and just claims , I will put my seal with my arms and supporters , " drawing it from a box . " Read it , Mr. Mason , " said Maria . Lord Darmaya had mislaid his spectacles , and his ...
Pàgina 96
... took no pains to discover what he imagined was intended , and a new old volume gratified him so much , that even impertinence and satire were to- tally harmless in effect . He had resided in Darmaya five years , in hermit - like ...
... took no pains to discover what he imagined was intended , and a new old volume gratified him so much , that even impertinence and satire were to- tally harmless in effect . He had resided in Darmaya five years , in hermit - like ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 88 - O thou whose pow'er o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. 'Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path- motive, guide, original, and end.
Pàgina 180 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Pàgina 175 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Pàgina 175 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Pàgina 44 - Oh sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
Pàgina 233 - Fortune hears th' incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall. On ev'ry stage the foes of peace attend, Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end. Love ends with hope, the sinking statesman's door Pours in the morning...
Pàgina 164 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Pàgina 147 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me.
Pàgina 187 - Which is, perhaps, as hard t' imagine right, As to paint Echo to the sight, I would not draw the idea from an empty name ; Because, alas ! when we all die, Careless and ignorant posterity, Although they praise the learning and the wit, And though the title seems to show The name and man by whom the book was writ, Yet how shall...
Pàgina 40 - Why, all delights are vain ; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain : As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth ; while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look...