Roundabout PapersHarper, 1863 - 292 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 35
Pagina 29
... Lord Castlereagh looked at Vienna , where he was the only gentleman present without any deco- ration whatever . And the Great Duke's theory was , that clasps and ribbons , stars and garters , were good and proper ornaments for himself ...
... Lord Castlereagh looked at Vienna , where he was the only gentleman present without any deco- ration whatever . And the Great Duke's theory was , that clasps and ribbons , stars and garters , were good and proper ornaments for himself ...
Pagina 30
... lords ' sons Honorable , and so forth ; but for a na- tion as numerous , well educated , strong , rich , civilized , free ... Lord Jones at his noble father's decease ; but Mr. Brown , the senator from New York , is a silly upstart for ...
... lords ' sons Honorable , and so forth ; but for a na- tion as numerous , well educated , strong , rich , civilized , free ... Lord Jones at his noble father's decease ; but Mr. Brown , the senator from New York , is a silly upstart for ...
Pagina 34
... Lord Palmerston made a deep study of novels ? In this matter the late ministry , to be sure , was better qualified ; but even then , grumblers who had not got their canary cordons would have hinted at professional jealousies entering ...
... Lord Palmerston made a deep study of novels ? In this matter the late ministry , to be sure , was better qualified ; but even then , grumblers who had not got their canary cordons would have hinted at professional jealousies entering ...
Pagina 36
... lord mayor to have a gilt coach ; my mag- nificent monarch to be surrounded by magnificent no- bles ; I hurrah respectfully when they pass in pro- cession . It is good for Mr. Briefless ( 50 Pump Court , fourth floor ) that there should ...
... lord mayor to have a gilt coach ; my mag- nificent monarch to be surrounded by magnificent no- bles ; I hurrah respectfully when they pass in pro- cession . It is good for Mr. Briefless ( 50 Pump Court , fourth floor ) that there should ...
Pagina 47
... One day a young officer of the Euryalus may win it ; and , having just read the memoirs of LORD DUN- DONALD , I know who ought to have the first Grand Cross . ON SOME LATE GREAT VICTORIES . ON the 18th day ON RIBBONS . 47.
... One day a young officer of the Euryalus may win it ; and , having just read the memoirs of LORD DUN- DONALD , I know who ought to have the first Grand Cross . ON SOME LATE GREAT VICTORIES . ON the 18th day ON RIBBONS . 47.
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admirable age of loving ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE amused anecdote Antwerp cathedral Aurora Floyd beard bells better Bombarda's bottle Captain Christmas church claret Cloth Cornhill Cornhill Magazine DANIEL BUTTERFIELD delight dine dinner Dinorah dress Dutch Republic Eliza eyes fancy fellow French fulgura gentle gentleman give Gorillas gun-room hand head heard heart honor Hôtel hundred joke ladies laugh LEO BELGICUS let us say look Lord Magazine mind morning mother neighbor never night noble Novel ogres old stories Oudenarde paint pass Paterfamilias perhaps Place Vendôme play poor port pretty remember round Roundabout Sarah Sands score servants shadow dance ship smile speak suppose sure sweet table d'hôte talk tell thing thou thought tion truth tune walk wife wine women wonderful write young folks
Populaire passages
Pagina 244 - In his family, gentle, generous, good-humored, affectionate, self-denying: in society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood; quite unspoiled by prosperity; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries) ; eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Pagina 253 - ... books were sold by hundreds of thousands, nay, millions, when his profits were known to be large, and the habits of life of the good old bachelor were notoriously modest and simple ? He had loved once in his life. The lady he loved died ; and he, whom all the world loved,- never sought to replace her. I can't say how much the thought of that fidelity has touched me. Does not the very cheerfulness of his after life add to the pathos of that untold story...
Pagina 97 - We elderly people have lived in that praerailroad world, which has passed into limbo and vanished from under us. I tell you it was firm under our feet once, and not long ago. They have raised those railroad embankments up, and shut off the old world that was behind them. Climb up that bank on which the irons are laid, and look to the other side—it is gone.
Pagina 252 - I had seen many pictures of his house, and read descriptions of it, in both of which it was treated with a not unusual American exaggeration. It was but a pretty little cabin of a place ; the gentleman of the press who took notes of the place, whilst his kind old host was sleeping, might have visited the whole house in a couple of minutes.
Pagina 252 - It seemed to me, during a year's travel in the country, as if no one ever aimed a blow at Irving. All men held their hand from that harmless, friendly peacemaker. I had the good fortune to see him at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington,* and remarked how in every place he was honored and welcomed. Every large city has its "Irving House.
Pagina 253 - Irving had such a small house and such narrow rooms because there was a great number of people to occupy them. He could only afford to keep one old horse (which, lazy and aged as it was, managed once or twice to run away with that careless old horseman). He could only afford to give plain sherry to that amiable British paragraph-monger from New York, who saw the patriarch asleep over his modest, blameless cup, and fetched the public into his private chamber to look at him. Irving could only live...
Pagina 151 - They talk of murderers being pretty certainly found out. Psha ! I have heard an authority awfully competent vow and declare that scores and hundreds of murders are committed, and nobody is the wiser. That terrible man mentioned one or two ways of committing murder, which he maintained were quite common, and were scarcely ever found out.
Pagina 94 - Logic, by Pierce Egan; and it has pictures—oh! such funny pictures! As he reads, there comes behind the boy a man, a dervish, in a black gown, like a woman, and a black square cap, and he has a book in each hand, and he seizes the boy who is reading the picture-book, and lays his head upon one of his books, and smacks it with the other. The boy makes faces, and so that picture disappears.
Pagina 178 - And who are these who pour out of the castle ? the imprisoned maidens, the maltreated widows, the poor old hoary grandfathers, who have been locked up in the dungeons these scores and scores of years, writhing under the tyranny of that ruffian ! Ah ye knights of the pen ! May honor be your shield, and truth tip your lances ! Be gentle to all gentle people.
Pagina 248 - and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary of Government, and the Commander-in-Chief, and their wives. I had