Pelham, Or, The Adventures of a GentlemanH. Colburn, 1828 - 244 стор. |
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... took my arm , and began discussing persons and things , poetry and china , French plays and music , till I found myself beside her at dinner , and most assidu- ously endeavouring to silence her by the superior engrossments of a ...
... took my arm , and began discussing persons and things , poetry and china , French plays and music , till I found myself beside her at dinner , and most assidu- ously endeavouring to silence her by the superior engrossments of a ...
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... took wine , and said " Sir . " I must , however , among this number , except the beautiful Lady Roseville , the most fascinating woman , perhaps , of the day . She was evidently the great person there , and , indeed , among all people ...
... took wine , and said " Sir . " I must , however , among this number , except the beautiful Lady Roseville , the most fascinating woman , perhaps , of the day . She was evidently the great person there , and , indeed , among all people ...
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... took care to improve , From that time the family of a farmer Sinclair , ( one of Sir Lionel's tenants ) was alarmed by strange and supernatural noises : one apartment in especial , occupied by a female member of the household , was ...
... took care to improve , From that time the family of a farmer Sinclair , ( one of Sir Lionel's tenants ) was alarmed by strange and supernatural noises : one apartment in especial , occupied by a female member of the household , was ...
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... took . It was to lead me home through the churchyard of the same , by the by , which Lord Vincent had particularized in his anecdote of the mysterious stranger . The night was clear , but windy : there were a few light clouds passing ...
... took . It was to lead me home through the churchyard of the same , by the by , which Lord Vincent had particularized in his anecdote of the mysterious stranger . The night was clear , but windy : there were a few light clouds passing ...
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... took his hand ; I spoke to him in every endearing term that I could think of ; and roused and excited as my feelings were , by so strange and sudden a meeting , I felt my tears involuntarily falling over the hand which I held in my own ...
... took his hand ; I spoke to him in every endearing term that I could think of ; and roused and excited as my feelings were , by so strange and sudden a meeting , I felt my tears involuntarily falling over the hand which I held in my own ...
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Aberton acquaintance admirable amusement answer appearance basket beautiful Bedos better Bois de Boulogne borough of Buyemall Briggs CHAPTER character coat colour Combermere conversation countenance cried Curaçoa dear dinner door Duchesse écarté England English entered eyes fellow fool French Frenchman garçon Garrett Park gentleman GEORGE WITHERS give glance Glanville Glenmorris half hand heart Henry Henry Pelham honour hour Howard de Howard imagine Jardin des Plantes Jocko Lady Nelthorpe Lady Roseville latter laugh looked Lord Vincent Lufton Madame D'Anville mind Miss Trafford Monsieur Margot morning mother never Palais Royal Paris passion pause Pelham perceived person pleasure poor present pretty Quintin replied Vincent Russelton salon short Sir Lionel Sir Willoughby smile suppose sure table d'hôte talking tall taste thing Thornton thought tion tone took turned Tyrrell uncle vanity vulgar Warburton woman Wormwood young
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Сторінка 35 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Сторінка 35 - Shall I wasting in Despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the Day, Or the Flowery Meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I, how fair she be.
Сторінка 184 - ... a beautiful golden wig (the Duchesse never liked me to play with her hair) was on a block close by, and on another table was a set of teeth, d'une blaiieheur eblouissante.
Сторінка 7 - Tell fortune of her blindness, Tell nature of decay, Tell friendship of unkindness, Tell justice of delay. And if the'y will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming, Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming. If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, Tell, manhood shakes off pity, Tell, virtue least preferreth.
Сторінка 32 - The balls of his broad eyes rolled in his head, And glared betwixt a yellow and a red ; He looked a lion with a gloomy stare, And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair ; Big-boned, and large of limbs, with sinews strong, Broad-shouldered, and his arms were round and long.
Сторінка 92 - What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners ! how difficult to define — how much more difficult to impart ! Better for a man to possess them, than wealth, beauty, or even talent, if it fall short of genius — they will more than supply all.
Сторінка 324 - I know not why this study has been termed uninteresting. No sooner had I entered upon its consideration, than I could scarcely tear myself from it.
Сторінка 134 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Сторінка 11 - Latin verses in half an hour; I could construe, without an English translation, all the easy Latin authors, and many -of the difficult ones, with it: I could read Greek fluently, and even translate it through the medium of a Latin version at the bottom of the page.