Patronage, Bind 15Baldwin and Cradock, 1833 |
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admiration Alfred Percy answer appeared beauty Buckhurst Caroline's character charmed Clay-hall colonel Hungerford commissioner Falconer coner conversation count Altenberg countenance cried lady daugh daughter dear lady dress duke of Greenwich English Clay Erasmus eyes Falconer-court Falconer's fashion father favour feel fortune French Clay gentleman give gout Gresham happy hear heard heart honour hope Hungerford Castle James Harcourt knew lady Anne lady Arlingtons lady Frances Arlington lady Jane Granville lady Kew lady Trant ladyship letter look lord Old lord Oldborough lord William lordship ma'am manner marriage marry mind miss Caroline Percy miss Falconers miss Georgiana Falconer miss Percy morning mother never observed opinion passion Percy family Percy's Petcalf pleasure racter recollect Rosamond smiling soon Spandrill speak spoke sure talents taste tell Temple thing thought told tone Tourville turned voice wish woman word young lady Zara
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Side 170 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Side 170 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Side 162 - Powerful prompting got him through the first six lines decently enough, till he came to — — " wasting tenderness in wild profusion, I might look down to my surrounded feet, And bless contending beauties.
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Side 237 - ... protesting, that in the whole course of his life he never knew one man, of what condition soever, arrive to any degree of reputation in the world, who made choice or delighted in the company or conversation of those, who in their qualities were inferior, or in their parts not much superior to them.
Side 70 - He is a grave man of pleasure — his first care being to provide for his exclusively personal gratifications. His dinner is a serious, solemn business, whether it be at his own table or at a tavern, which last he prefers — he orders it so that his repast shall be the very best of its kind that money can procure. His next care is, that he be not cheated in what he is to pay. Not that he values money, but he cannot bear to be taken In. Then his dress, his horses, his whole appointment and establishment,...
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