Veronica PlayfairLittle, Brown,, 1910 - 319 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... feeling perhaps a new tide of life sweep through his aged frame , pricked up his ears and dashed along down the hill not so far behind the hunters . But age can never keep the pace with youth for long , and his spirit soon flagged as he ...
... feeling perhaps a new tide of life sweep through his aged frame , pricked up his ears and dashed along down the hill not so far behind the hunters . But age can never keep the pace with youth for long , and his spirit soon flagged as he ...
Pagina 11
... feel stiff and sore after his wild course , and it was all I could do to whip him into a decent gait till I was out of sight of the hunt . Then I let the reins fall loose on his neck and gave my- self up to thinking . At first my mind ...
... feel stiff and sore after his wild course , and it was all I could do to whip him into a decent gait till I was out of sight of the hunt . Then I let the reins fall loose on his neck and gave my- self up to thinking . At first my mind ...
Pagina 24
... feel no need of letters to proclaim him honest . It is hard after so many years have gone by and when time has wrought such a change in his con- dition to recall him as he was then ; but certain things about him stand out clear in my ...
... feel no need of letters to proclaim him honest . It is hard after so many years have gone by and when time has wrought such a change in his con- dition to recall him as he was then ; but certain things about him stand out clear in my ...
Pagina 36
... feel superior , and as it was not easy to feel superior to this young man in matters of the mind , I gave myself rather ab- surd airs of quality and secretly longed for some grand acquaintance with whose title and condi- tion to overawe ...
... feel superior , and as it was not easy to feel superior to this young man in matters of the mind , I gave myself rather ab- surd airs of quality and secretly longed for some grand acquaintance with whose title and condi- tion to overawe ...
Pagina 37
... hood , and set forth without asking my mother's permission , perhaps from a guilty feeling that it might be refused . This , as Mr. Franklin would say , was an erra- tum , which , I take it , is a TREATS CHIEFLY OF CHEESE 37.
... hood , and set forth without asking my mother's permission , perhaps from a guilty feeling that it might be refused . This , as Mr. Franklin would say , was an erra- tum , which , I take it , is a TREATS CHIEFLY OF CHEESE 37.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Pagina 25 - So I dined upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Pagina 68 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.
Pagina 91 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Pagina 211 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Pagina 98 - LORD BOLINGBROKE TO THE THREE YAHOOS OF TWICKENHAM. JONATHAN, ALEXANDER, JOHN,* MOST EXCELLENT TRIUMVIRS OF PARNASSUS. THOUGH you are probably very indifferent where I am, or what I am doing ; yet I resolve to believe the contrary. I persuade myself, that you have sent at least fifteen times within this fortnight to Dawley farm.f and that you are extremely mortified at my long silence.
Pagina 107 - I am in my own farm," says he, "and here I shoot strong and tenacious roots: I have caught hold of the earth, to use a gardener's phrase, and neither my enemies nor my friends will find it an easy matter to transplant me again.
Pagina 125 - When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a certain sort of species hardly a degree above a monkey ; who has more diverting tricks than any of you, is an animal less mischievous and expensive, might in time be a tolerable critic in velvet and brocade, and for aught I know, would equally become them.
Pagina 124 - But the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours, is to vex the world, rather than divert it; and if I could compass that design without hurting my own person or fortune, I would be the most indefatigable writer you have ever seen without reading.
Pagina 3 - A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky proclaim it a Hunting Morning...