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Pagina 13
... was once present when a young gentleman at table put a tart away from him , and said to his neighbor , the Younger Son ( with rather a fatuous air ) , " I never eat sweets . " " Not eat sweets ! and do you know why ON A LAZY IDLE BOY . 13.
... was once present when a young gentleman at table put a tart away from him , and said to his neighbor , the Younger Son ( with rather a fatuous air ) , " I never eat sweets . " " Not eat sweets ! and do you know why ON A LAZY IDLE BOY . 13.
Pagina 14
... never be surprised when the Stranger turns out to be the rightful earl - when the old waterman , throwing off his beggarly gabardine , shows his stars and the collars of his various orders , and , clasping Antonia to his bosom , proves ...
... never be surprised when the Stranger turns out to be the rightful earl - when the old waterman , throwing off his beggarly gabardine , shows his stars and the collars of his various orders , and , clasping Antonia to his bosom , proves ...
Pagina 18
... never knew the Arabian Nights was an improper book until I happened once to read it in a " family edition . " Well , qui s'excuse . Who , pray , has accused me as yet ? Here am I smothering dear good old Mrs. Grundy's objections before ...
... never knew the Arabian Nights was an improper book until I happened once to read it in a " family edition . " Well , qui s'excuse . Who , pray , has accused me as yet ? Here am I smothering dear good old Mrs. Grundy's objections before ...
Pagina 19
... never be cured . There are wrongs and griefs that can't be mended . It is all very well of you , my dear Mrs. G. , to say that this spirit is unchristian , and that we ought to forgive and forget , and so forth . How can I forget at ...
... never be cured . There are wrongs and griefs that can't be mended . It is all very well of you , my dear Mrs. G. , to say that this spirit is unchristian , and that we ought to forgive and forget , and so forth . How can I forget at ...
Pagina 23
... never probably know to my dying day . They were very pretty little men , with pale faces , and large , mel- ancholy eyes ; and they had beautiful little hands , and little boots , and the finest little shirts , and black paletots lined ...
... never probably know to my dying day . They were very pretty little men , with pale faces , and large , mel- ancholy eyes ; and they had beautiful little hands , and little boots , and the finest little shirts , and black paletots lined ...
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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.