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Pagina 13
... ladies of the house fighting for the volumes . Be assured that lazy boy was reading Dumas ( or I will go so far as to let the reader here pronounce the eulogium , or insert the name of his favorite author ) ; and as for the anger , or ...
... ladies of the house fighting for the volumes . Be assured that lazy boy was reading Dumas ( or I will go so far as to let the reader here pronounce the eulogium , or insert the name of his favorite author ) ; and as for the anger , or ...
Pagina 15
... ladies ( to whom I present my most respectful compli ments ) eating tarts and ices , but at the proper even- tide they have good plain wholesome tea and bread and butter . Can any body tell me does the author of the Tale of Two Cities ...
... ladies ( to whom I present my most respectful compli ments ) eating tarts and ices , but at the proper even- tide they have good plain wholesome tea and bread and butter . Can any body tell me does the author of the Tale of Two Cities ...
Pagina 19
... lady sitting by me , " how comes it that in your books there is a certain class ( it may be of men , or it may be of women , but that is not the question in point ) -how comes it , dear sir , there is a certain class of persons whom you ...
... lady sitting by me , " how comes it that in your books there is a certain class ( it may be of men , or it may be of women , but that is not the question in point ) -how comes it , dear sir , there is a certain class of persons whom you ...
Pagina 20
William Makepeace Thackeray. over- So , you see , I told the lady the inevitable story . I was egotistical . I was selfish , no doubt ; but I was natural , and was telling the truth . You say you are angry with a man for talking about ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. over- So , you see , I told the lady the inevitable story . I was egotistical . I was selfish , no doubt ; but I was natural , and was telling the truth . You say you are angry with a man for talking about ...
Pagina 22
... ladies he met ( and evidently bored ) at dinner were black women ? What is all this egotistical pother ? A plague on his I's ! " My dear fellow , if you read Montaigne's Essays , you must own that he might call almost any one by the ...
... ladies he met ( and evidently bored ) at dinner were black women ? What is all this egotistical pother ? A plague on his I's ! " My dear fellow , if you read Montaigne's Essays , you must own that he might call almost any one by the ...
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Pagina 290 - God bade him ; each honest in his life ; just and irreproachable in his dealings ; dear to his friends; honored by his country; beloved at his fireside. It has been the fortunate lot of both to give incalculable happiness and delight to the world, which thanks- them in return with an immense kindliness, respect, affection. It may not be our chance, brother scribe, to be endowed with such merit, or rewarded with such fame.
Pagina 297 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
Pagina 296 - HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST: being a Guide through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Austria, Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Syria, Turkey. Greece, Switzerland, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and Great Britain and Ireland. By W. PEMBROKE FETRIDGE. With a Map embracing Colored Routes of Travel in the above Countries, and a new Railroad Map. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Large 12mo, Cloth, $3 00; Leather Tucks, $3 50. rpLEANOR'S VICTORY. A Novel. By the Au•^ thor of " Aurora Floyd" (In...
Pagina 280 - Washington's name: he came amongst us bringing the kindest sympathy, the most artless, smiling goodwill. His new country (which some people here might be disposed to regard rather superciliously) could send us, as he showed in his own person, a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, easy, witty, quiet; and, socially, the equal of the most refined Europeans.
Pagina 98 - We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
Pagina 292 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
Pagina 160 - My dear ! I am going away for a few days to Brighton. Here are all the keys of the house. You may open every door and closet, except the one at the end of the oak-room opposite the fireplace, with the little bronze Shakespeare on the mantel-piece (or what not).
Pagina 284 - ... 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 280 - It would have been easy to speak otherwise than he did: to inflame national rancors, which, at the time when he first became known as a public writer, war had just renewed: to cry down the old civilization at the expense of the new: to point out our faults, arrogance, short-comings, and give the republic to infer how much she was the parent state's superior. There are writers enough in the United States, honest and otherwise, who preach that kind of doctrine. But the good Irving, the peaceful, the...
Pagina 282 - 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.