Eve Effingham: Or, Home, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1838 |
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... wish you may escape them ; for , in my untravelled judgment , they are anything but agreeable , notwithstanding all they have seen , or pretend to have seen . " " It is very possible to have been all over Christendom , and to remain ...
... wish you may escape them ; for , in my untravelled judgment , they are anything but agreeable , notwithstanding all they have seen , or pretend to have seen . " " It is very possible to have been all over Christendom , and to remain ...
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... wish to know how our society strikes one who has been educated abroad . " " You wish , then , for opinions that can have no great value , since my experience at home extends only to a fortnight . But you have many books on the country ...
... wish to know how our society strikes one who has been educated abroad . " " You wish , then , for opinions that can have no great value , since my experience at home extends only to a fortnight . But you have many books on the country ...
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... wish to see me ? " " Admit him , by all means ; it is your fa- ther's land agent , and he may wish to leave some message for my uncle . You will be obliged to make his acquaintance , sooner or later , and it may as well be done now EVE ...
... wish to see me ? " " Admit him , by all means ; it is your fa- ther's land agent , and he may wish to leave some message for my uncle . You will be obliged to make his acquaintance , sooner or later , and it may as well be done now EVE ...
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... wish to be on good terms with him- " do not mistake me ; I admire the house , and know it to be a perfect specimen of a pure architecture in its way ; but then public opinion is not yet quite up to it . I see all its beauties , I would wish ...
... wish to be on good terms with him- " do not mistake me ; I admire the house , and know it to be a perfect specimen of a pure architecture in its way ; but then public opinion is not yet quite up to it . I see all its beauties , I would wish ...
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... wish to see his neighbour display good taste , as it helps to embellish a country ; but a man who should consult the whole neighbourhood be- fore he built , would be very likely to erect a complicated house , if he paid much respect to ...
... wish to see his neighbour display good taste , as it helps to embellish a country ; but a man who should consult the whole neighbourhood be- fore he built , would be very likely to erect a complicated house , if he paid much respect to ...
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Page 149 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 137 - There shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny ; the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; l and I will make it felony, to drink small beer ; all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 200 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 28 - Now it is that we see the struggles for place, the heart-burnings and jealousies of contending families, and the influence of mere money. Circumstances have probably established the local superiority of a few beyond all question, and the condition of these serves as a goal for the rest to aim at. The learned professions, the ministry included, or what, by courtesy, are so called, take precedence, as a matter of course, next to wealth, however, when wealth is at all supported by appearances.
Page 34 - I think you are mistaken, Miss Effingham, for the public sentiment just now runs almost exclusively and popularly into the Grecian school. We build little besides temples for our churches, our banks, our taverns, our court-houses, and our dwellings. A friend of mine has just built a brewery on the model of the Temple of the Winds.
Page 246 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 164 - Her breast was a brave palace, a broad street, Where all heroic ample thoughts did meet, Where nature such a tenement had ta'en That other souls, to hers, dwelt in a lane.
Page 277 - I know the shaggy hills about, The meadows smooth and wide, The plains, that, toward the southern sky, Fenced east and west by mountains lie. A white man, gazing on the scene, Would say a lovely spot was here, And praise the lawns...
Page 239 - A dozen years, Ned ! You name an age. Speak of three or four, if you wish to find anything in America where you left it ! The whole country is in such a constant state of mutation, that I can only liken it to the game of children, in which, as one quits his corner, another runs into it, and he that finds no corner to get into, is the laughingstock of the others. Fancy that dwelling...