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Side 4
... talk- ing about ? " Yes , sir , " said my father , rousing himself , " such was Giles Tibbets , M.A. , Sol Scientiarum , tutor to the humble scholar you address , and father to poor Kitty . He left me his Elzevirs ; he left me also his ...
... talk- ing about ? " Yes , sir , " said my father , rousing himself , " such was Giles Tibbets , M.A. , Sol Scientiarum , tutor to the humble scholar you address , and father to poor Kitty . He left me his Elzevirs ; he left me also his ...
Side 11
... in the garden , pass by with a smile and nod ; he would stop , put his book in his calent and though his talk was often shove my comprehension still special instance with respect to that same flower - pot. A FAMILY PICTURE . 11 ...
... in the garden , pass by with a smile and nod ; he would stop , put his book in his calent and though his talk was often shove my comprehension still special instance with respect to that same flower - pot. A FAMILY PICTURE . 11 ...
Side 28
... at these apple - trees of yours . I never saw finer . I am a great judge of apples . I find , in talking with my sister that you make very little profit by them That's a whole , say a hundred acres . You can plant. 28 THE CAXTONS.
... at these apple - trees of yours . I never saw finer . I am a great judge of apples . I find , in talking with my sister that you make very little profit by them That's a whole , say a hundred acres . You can plant. 28 THE CAXTONS.
Side 34
... talking of . " 66 Oho ! " said my father , " brother Jack is going to print his butter ! " And indeed Uncle Jack played his cards so well on this occasion , and set before the Lord - Lieutenant , with whom he had a personal interview ...
... talking of . " 66 Oho ! " said my father , " brother Jack is going to print his butter ! " And indeed Uncle Jack played his cards so well on this occasion , and set before the Lord - Lieutenant , with whom he had a personal interview ...
Side 46
... talks of going over for her ; and we have half promised to visit them both in Cumberland . But , bless me ! is that twelve ? and the posset quite cold ! " " One word more , dearest mother - one word . My father's book— is he still going ...
... talks of going over for her ; and we have half promised to visit them both in Cumberland . But , bless me ! is that twelve ? and the posset quite cold ! " " One word more , dearest mother - one word . My father's book— is he still going ...
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ambition amidst amongst ANTANACLASIS APOSIOPESIS asked Austin Australia better Blanche brother brow Bulwer called Caxton CHAPTER child cried dear door drew England EUGENE ARAM eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father feel felt fortune gentleman hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hope hurdy-gurdy interest knew Lady Ellinor leave less lips live London Lord Castleton mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never night once passed passion PAUL CLIFFORD paused Peacock perhaps Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins racter Robert Hall ruin Sedley Beaudesert seemed side Sir Sedley Sisty smile son's speak Squills stood sure talk tell thee thing thou thought Tibbets took turned Ulverstone Uncle Jack Uncle Roland Vivian voice walk William Caxton woman word young youth دو وو
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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...