The Caxtons: A Family PicturePutnam, 1898 - 472 sider |
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ambition amidst answer ANTANACLASIS APOSIOPESIS asked Austin better Blanche brother brow called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child Chris Hammond cried dear door drew eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father feel felt fortune gentleman hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hurdy-gurdy knew Lady Ellinor leave lips live London look Lord Castleton marriage mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never night once passion pause Peacock Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Robert Hall round ruins scalene triangle seemed servant silence Sir Sedley Beaudesert Sisty smile son's Squills stood sure talk tell thee thing thou thought Tibbets Tibullus tion took turned Ulverstone Uncle Jack Uncle Roland uncle's Vivian voice walk William Caxton window woman wonder word young youth
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Side 101 - 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 204 - I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague ! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah ! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.
Side 295 - De-fine-gentlemanise yourself from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
Side 179 - 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 134 - When I saw Dr. Gode begin to tell his puddings hanging in the chimney, I told him he would not live long!" I wish I had copied that passage from " The Table Talk " in large round hand, and set it before my father at breakfast, the morn preceding that fatal eve in which Uncle Jack persuaded him to tell his puddings. Yet, now I think of it, Uncle Jack hung the puddings in the chimney, but he did not persuade my father to tell them. Beyond a vague surmise that half the suspended
Side 428 - We are here among the vast and noble scenes of nature ; we are there among the pitiful shifts of policy: we walk here in the light and open ways of the divine bounty; we grope there in the dark and confused labyrinths of human malice: our senses are here feasted with the clear and genuine taste of their objects ; which are all sophisticated there, and for the most part overwhelmed with their contraries.
Side 207 - ... 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 ! Tut, tut, it was but a bruised feather ! See what life leaves behind it when all is done ! — a summary of positive facts far out of the region of sorrow and suffering, linking themselves with the being of the world. Yes,...
Side 15 - 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 207 - AFTER breakfast the next morning I took my hat to go out, when my father, looking at me, and seeing by my countenance that I had not slept, said gently, — " My dear Pisistratus, you have not tried my medicine yet." " What medicine, sir ? " "Robert Hall." " No, indeed, not yet," said I, smiling. " Do so, my son, before you go out ; depend on it you will enjoy your walk more.
Side 178 - 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...