Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Pàgina 16
... superior to the circle in which his family moved - superior in tone , and in what had begun to strike his young imagination with an unaccountable interest , the nondescript , and almost indescribable thing called Fashion . How a child ...
... superior to the circle in which his family moved - superior in tone , and in what had begun to strike his young imagination with an unaccountable interest , the nondescript , and almost indescribable thing called Fashion . How a child ...
Pàgina 19
... superior to his own . A slight from such persons became early a source of mortification , amounting to affliction ; and to see any one so high as to be precluded from his notice or acquaintance , was a matter of serious disturbance to ...
... superior to his own . A slight from such persons became early a source of mortification , amounting to affliction ; and to see any one so high as to be precluded from his notice or acquaintance , was a matter of serious disturbance to ...
Pàgina 30
... rank , added to this , the not uncommon weakness of thinking him- self often undervalued , and succumbing under , instead of rising superior to , such a persuasion . ' Thus , whatever his real powers of mind , 30 STERLING .
... rank , added to this , the not uncommon weakness of thinking him- self often undervalued , and succumbing under , instead of rising superior to , such a persuasion . ' Thus , whatever his real powers of mind , 30 STERLING .
Pàgina 39
... superior , encouragingly , " no harm in that ; indeed , I am told that a great proportion of the City wealth is acquired in many of those lanes and close places , where the sun seldom shines . I never was in the City but once , and that ...
... superior , encouragingly , " no harm in that ; indeed , I am told that a great proportion of the City wealth is acquired in many of those lanes and close places , where the sun seldom shines . I never was in the City but once , and that ...
Pàgina 86
... superior tact and coolness of the fine gentleman carried it hollow over the plebeian . Tylney , perfectly at his ease , nay , enjoué , as far as the repose of his manners permitted it , with the other guests , all of whom he well knew ...
... superior tact and coolness of the fine gentleman carried it hollow over the plebeian . Tylney , perfectly at his ease , nay , enjoué , as far as the repose of his manners permitted it , with the other guests , all of whom he well knew ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance admiration ambition answer aristocratic asked aunt Avington beautiful Bloomsbury Square Bracebridge Brisbane Broadbelt brother called castle certainly character condé countess court daugh Donna doubt duchess duke eyes father favour fear feelings felt Fitzwalter fortune French Revolution garden gave gentleman give happy heard heart Heaven Herzstein honour hope king knew knight of St Lady Euphrasia Lady Melusina Lady Trelawney Las Huelgas laughed least letter liberty look Lord Langston Lord Ormond Lord Rochester Madame Roland manner Mauleverer Mile End mind Miss Sycamore murder nature never noble observed Oldacre patriots Penruddock perhaps person political pride principles prioress proud racter Ratcliff recollect reform replied Rheindorf Robert Sterling Rosalie Roundhead seemed Sir Robert sister smile Sterling's Strickland superior suppose sure Swithin's tell thing thought tion told truth Tylney Whig Wilson wish wonder young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 295 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Pàgina 73 - And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Pàgina 53 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Pàgina 238 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Pàgina 124 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Pàgina 2 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Pàgina 48 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Pàgina 32 - Athenae non tam operibus magnificis exquisitisque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione summorum virorum, ubi quisque habitare, ubi sedere, ubi disputare sit solitus, studioseque eorum etiam sepulcra contemplor.
Pàgina 73 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Pàgina 72 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...