Nights of the Round Table; Or, Stories of Aunt Jane and Her Friends ...: Series 1-, Bind 1J. Johnstone, 1832 |
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admiration amusement Beau Brummel beautiful believe called Captain Spencer character Charles Fox Charlotte Hope Charlotte's Cowper cried Curate daughter dear dear Charlotte Dodsley dress eau de Cologne Emma Roberts English eyes fancied Fanny fashion father favourite fear feelings flatterers French gentle gentleman godmother governess hand happy heard heart honour humble Jane Aulmerle Jane drew Jane Ford Jane's kind knew Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey laugh little Charlotte little girl little Jane looked Lord Thurlow Mademoiselle mamma Marquis mind Miss Ford Miss Harding Miss Hope Miss Lydgate Miss Pitman mother neighbours ness never night noble Norman Gordon ornaments passion Pendarves perceived person poor pride proud pupil putian scene Seymour shew sister smiling Sophia spirit stairs story sure talents taste tell ther thing thought Vale Royal vanity veil whispered Widow Windsor wish woman young lady youth
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Side 75 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still ? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
Side 182 - All which, probably, had never occurred, had Louis VII. not been so rash as to crop his head and shave his beard, by which he became so disgustful in the eyes of our Queen Eleanor.
Side 99 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Side 81 - The memory of his old fellow-student and companion had been revived on this night, by the arrival of a volume, just published, of Cowper's poetry. With a feeling bordering on contempt, Lord Thurlow threw it from him unopened. Now another scene of our magic glass, and behold the High Chancellor lays his throbbing but ever clear head on a downy pillow, and sets his alarum-watch to an early hour; for, sick or well, he must be at Windsor by ten to-morrow. He, however, leaves orders, that at whatever...
Side 82 - Chancellor had no power,—Fancy is not a ward of Chancery. His visions were gloomy and distempered. His youth, his manhood, his present life, are all fantastically but vividly blended. Sometimes the spirit that haunts him is the Prince of Wales, then it becomes Charles Fox, and anon it changes to William Cowper; and again back to Fox. But his hour comes, the alarum wakes him, and he is almost glad of the relief.
Side 58 - Peep, and tell us what you see, Charles," said the Reverend showman to our old friend Charles Herbert. — " An old building, forms, desks, a lofty large room, many boys and youths, and three apart and prominent." —
Side 93 - Unwin insists that it is a cold damp night, he takes his great-coat, though only to please her, and Sam marches before with the lantern. John Queeney has but one poor room, Sam would be an intruder there ; and as it is harsh to have him wait in the street, like the attendant or horses of a fine lady, Sam is sent home by his amiable master. " When, in an hour afterwards, Mr Cowper returns, he tells that John Queeney is dying, and will probably not see over the night ; that he is ill indeed, but that...
Side 68 - All started for the prize : — by routes how different did each gain the appointed place where all human travellers meet ! What then were their gains ! — which was happiest in his course of life ! — But we must follow them farther ; true is the Italian proverb, which says that no man can be pronounced happy till he is dead ! Which of the three Westminster boys became the best man ! Which most nobly fulfilled his duties to his God, his country, and his kind \ Which — now that they all are gone...
Side 66 - ... showed, the arrival of the loiterer under the churchyard elms, whom she seemed to welcome with the placid smile of long-tried affection. This scene looked brighter than the former. The old window-curtain was let down, the old sofa wheeled in, the tea-kettle was steaming, — and it was singing also, no doubt, if pictures could give out sounds; the shadows of a blazing fire of wood were dancing and quivering on walls and roof, and shining on all the polished surfaces of the furniture; and a couple...
Side 66 - ... said Sophia; and the boys, though anxious for more stirring pictures of life, politely yielded to her wish. The quickly shifting scenes exhibited a dull, dingy, and even mean-looking house in the centre of a small fifth-rate market town, and again a low-roofed parlour in that house, very plainly furnished with things neither fine nor new, and still less fashionable. Here sat an elderly, but comely gentlewoman knitting; and before her stood a plain tea equipage, waiting, as the next scene showed,...