The Caxtons: A Family PictureLippincott, 1874 |
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Side 19
... brow cleared , the desire of serving made him a new being : cautious , profound , practical . Too lazy or too languid where only his own interests were at stake - touch his benevolence , and all the wheels of the clock - work felt the ...
... brow cleared , the desire of serving made him a new being : cautious , profound , practical . Too lazy or too languid where only his own interests were at stake - touch his benevolence , and all the wheels of the clock - work felt the ...
Side 56
... brow . " His natural lines were all upward curves , his smile most ingratiating , his eye so frank , even his trick of rubbing his clean , well - fed , English - looking hands , had something about it coaxing , and débonnaire ...
... brow . " His natural lines were all upward curves , his smile most ingratiating , his eye so frank , even his trick of rubbing his clean , well - fed , English - looking hands , had something about it coaxing , and débonnaire ...
Side 96
... brow of a hill , rose an old ruin , with one tower left , and this , with half the country round it , had once be- longed to the clergyman's family ; but all had been sold - all gone piece by piece , you see , my dear , except the ...
... brow of a hill , rose an old ruin , with one tower left , and this , with half the country round it , had once be- longed to the clergyman's family ; but all had been sold - all gone piece by piece , you see , my dear , except the ...
Side 102
... all was she fair ? had she blue eyes like my mother , or a high Roman nose and beetle brows like Captain Roland ? I mused , and mused . and mused - and the - candle went out and the moonlight grew broader and stiller 102 THE CAXTONS :
... all was she fair ? had she blue eyes like my mother , or a high Roman nose and beetle brows like Captain Roland ? I mused , and mused . and mused - and the - candle went out and the moonlight grew broader and stiller 102 THE CAXTONS :
Side 106
... posed , and his black brows met thoughtfully . " You are right , boy , I dare say , " he answered some . what mildly . " But do you think that it ought to give me as much pleasure to look on my old ruined 166 THE CAXTONS :
... posed , and his black brows met thoughtfully . " You are right , boy , I dare say , " he answered some . what mildly . " But do you think that it ought to give me as much pleasure to look on my old ruined 166 THE CAXTONS :
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ambition amidst answer ANTANACLASIS APOSIOPESIS asked Austin better Blanche brother brow Bullion called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child cried dear door drew eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father fear feel fellow felt fortune gentleman hand happy head hear heard heart heaven honor hope knew Lady Ellinor laugh leave lips live London look Lord Castleton marriage mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never night once Oxton passion pause Peacock perhaps Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Puss in Boots Robert Hall round ruin scalene triangle seemed servant silence Sisty smile son's Squills stood sure talk tell thee thing thou thought Tibbets took turned Ulverstone Uncle Jack Uncle Roland uncle's Vivian voice walk William Caxton window woman word young youth
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Side 181 - 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 pass'd away.
Side 308 - 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 29 - 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...
Side 233 - 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
Side 308 - There seemed to him no moral susceptibility ; and, what was more remarkable in a proud nature, little or nothing of the true point of honor.
Side 107 - Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
Side 74 - there's a great deal to be said on both sides of the question. You see, my boy, that Mrs. Primmins has a great many moulds for our butter-pats ; sometimes they come up with a crown on them, sometimes with the more popular impress of a cow. It is all very well for those who dish up the butter to print it according to their taste, or in proof of their abilities ; it is enough for us to butter our bread, say grace, and pay for the dairy. Do you understand ? " " Not a bit. sir." " Your namesake Pisistratus...
Side 32 - I fear we could not afford to give more than eighteen shillings for it, unless the young gentleman took some of these pretty things in exchange." " Eighteen shillings !" said my father; "you would give that sum. Well, my boy, whenever you do grow tired of your box, you have my leave to sell it.
Side 31 - That is some months to wait ; and we can wait, my boy : for truth that blooms all the year round is better than a poor geranium, and a word that is never broken is better than a piece of delf." 5. My head, which had been drooping before, rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me. " I have called to pay your little bill...
Side 380 - tis in war that the knot of fellowship is closest drawn. Tis in war that mutual succour is most given, mutual danger run, and common affection most exerted and employed. For heroism and philanthropy are almost one and the same.