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Side 70
... Peacock , these are yours if you will only say what I have to see ! " " I laughed outright - may I be forgiven for the boast , but I had the reputation at school of a pleasant laugh . The young man's face grew dark at the sound : he ...
... Peacock , these are yours if you will only say what I have to see ! " " I laughed outright - may I be forgiven for the boast , but I had the reputation at school of a pleasant laugh . The young man's face grew dark at the sound : he ...
Side 71
... Peacock , in the short gasps which his resolute struggle with his uninviting victim alone per- mitted- " nothing but ( puff , puff ) your true ( suck , suck ) syl- syl - sylva - does for him . Out , by the Lord ! the jaws of dark- ness ...
... Peacock , in the short gasps which his resolute struggle with his uninviting victim alone per- mitted- " nothing but ( puff , puff ) your true ( suck , suck ) syl- syl - sylva - does for him . Out , by the Lord ! the jaws of dark- ness ...
Side 72
... Peacock . He made no apology , but nodded farewell , and stretched himself at full length on the bench . Mr. Peacock , now absorbed in a game of patience , vouchsafed no return to my parting salutation , and in another moment I was ...
... Peacock . He made no apology , but nodded farewell , and stretched himself at full length on the bench . Mr. Peacock , now absorbed in a game of patience , vouchsafed no return to my parting salutation , and in another moment I was ...
Side 73
... Peacock pointing his stick towards open doorway next to the cook - shop , the hall beyond which was hted with gas , while , painted in black letters on a pane of glass er the door , was the word " Billiards . " Suiting the action to the ...
... Peacock pointing his stick towards open doorway next to the cook - shop , the hall beyond which was hted with gas , while , painted in black letters on a pane of glass er the door , was the word " Billiards . " Suiting the action to the ...
Side 144
... Peacock ? " STRANGER ( after a pause ) .- " I remember you ; your name is Caxton . " PISISTRATUS.- " And yours ? " SAPANCED . “ Poor devil if von ask my pockets - pockets which ing me from head to foot ) -The world seems 144 THE CAXTONS ...
... Peacock ? " STRANGER ( after a pause ) .- " I remember you ; your name is Caxton . " PISISTRATUS.- " And yours ? " SAPANCED . “ Poor devil if von ask my pockets - pockets which ing me from head to foot ) -The world seems 144 THE CAXTONS ...
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Side 88 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Side 353 - Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea, Which open all their pores to thee; Like a clear river thou dost glide, And with thy living stream through the close channels slide. But...
Side 150 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Side 19 - ... but say the simple truth, the child will learn to spell merely by looking at it ! How can three sounds, which run thus to the ear...
Side 18 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.
Side 172 - ... then diet yourself well on biography, the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own ; and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it ! You thought the wing was broken...
Side 150 - Passion in him comprehended many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural...
Side 170 - For the loss of fortune, the dose should be applied less directly to the understanding, — I would administer something elegant and cordial. For as the heart is crushed and lacerated by a loss in the affections, so it is rather the head that aches and suffers by the loss of money. Here we find the higher class of poets a very valuable remedy. For observe that poets of the grander and more comprehensive kind of genius have in them two separate men, quite distinct from each other, — the imaginative...
Side 11 - Mrs. Primmins was dreadfully afraid of my father — why, I know not, except that very talkative social persons are usually afraid of very silent, shy ones. She cast a hasty glance at her master, who was beginning to evince signs of attention, and cried promptly, " No, ma'am, it was not the dear boy...
Side 12 - You would be very sorry if your mamma were to throw that box out of the window, and break it for fun." I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. " But perhaps you would be very glad...