The Great English Novelists, Volum 2William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Harper & brothers, 1911 |
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Pàgina 62
... [ Colonel Newcome , just returned from India , is introduced by his sister - in - law to London society . ] To push on in the crowd every male or female struggler must use his or her shoulders . If a better place than yours presents ...
... [ Colonel Newcome , just returned from India , is introduced by his sister - in - law to London society . ] To push on in the crowd every male or female struggler must use his or her shoulders . If a better place than yours presents ...
Pàgina 63
... Colonel Newcome on the steps of her house , she orders him to come to her evening party ; and though he has not been to an evening party for five - and - thirty years - though he has not been to bed the night before - though he has no ...
... Colonel Newcome on the steps of her house , she orders him to come to her evening party ; and though he has not been to an evening party for five - and - thirty years - though he has not been to bed the night before - though he has no ...
Pàgina 64
... Colonel Newcome . The worthy soul , who cared not the least about adorning him- self , had a handsome diamond brooch of the year 1801- given him by poor Jack Cutler , who was knocked over by his side at Argaum , and wore this ornament ...
... Colonel Newcome . The worthy soul , who cared not the least about adorning him- self , had a handsome diamond brooch of the year 1801- given him by poor Jack Cutler , who was knocked over by his side at Argaum , and wore this ornament ...
Pàgina 65
... Colonel , who began to think , however , that perhaps French was the language of the polite world , into which he was now making his very first entrée . Mrs. Newcome had left her place at the door of her draw- ing - room to walk through ...
... Colonel , who began to think , however , that perhaps French was the language of the polite world , into which he was now making his very first entrée . Mrs. Newcome had left her place at the door of her draw- ing - room to walk through ...
Pàgina 66
... Colonel Newcome received , twirling his moustachios with much hauteur . He turned on his heel rather abruptly , and began to speak to Mrs. Newcome , who smiled and thanked him for coming - on his first night after his return . The Colonel ...
... Colonel Newcome received , twirling his moustachios with much hauteur . He turned on his heel rather abruptly , and began to speak to Mrs. Newcome , who smiled and thanked him for coming - on his first night after his return . The Colonel ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 151 - Tis finished already, said the Corporal, — for I could stay no longer; — so wished his Honour a good night. Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs; and as we went down together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. — But, alas ! said the Corporal, — the Lieutenant's last day's march is over ! Then what is to become of his poor boy ? cried my uncle Toby.
Pàgina 151 - said he, a second time, musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray, tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musket-shot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Pàgina 158 - He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Pàgina 193 - ... deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone...
Pàgina 137 - Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify Me.
Pàgina 154 - Fever, said my uncle Toby, to my house, — and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter, — and we'll have an apothecary, — and the corporal shall be your nurse ; and I'll be your servant, Le Fever.
Pàgina 278 - My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon toward evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish and also Georgiana wife of the above...
Pàgina 134 - I went on, but terrified to the last degree : looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes...
Pàgina 145 - Tis for a poor gentleman, I think, of the army, said the landlord, who has been taken ill at my house four days ago, and has never held up his head since, or had a desire to taste any thing, till just now, that he has a fancy for a glass of sack and a thin toast.
Pàgina 52 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims, for they are not worth sixpence; for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.