Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Page 45
... Wilson , proud of his college gardens , one of the beauties of Oxford , was glad to propose a walk in them , where they might talk over their early days at Hackney , and the neighbourhood of Cornhill . To his sur- prise , his friend's ...
... Wilson , proud of his college gardens , one of the beauties of Oxford , was glad to propose a walk in them , where they might talk over their early days at Hackney , and the neighbourhood of Cornhill . To his sur- prise , his friend's ...
Page 46
... Wilson , with kindness . " Why yes , and ashamed that I am so ; for nothing , I own , is so childish , so unworthy a man of common sense - which , however , I doubt myself to be . " " Come , " said Wilson , recovering , by his sympathy ...
... Wilson , with kindness . " Why yes , and ashamed that I am so ; for nothing , I own , is so childish , so unworthy a man of common sense - which , however , I doubt myself to be . " " Come , " said Wilson , recovering , by his sympathy ...
Page 47
... Wilson . " I am a merchant's son , " said Sterling . “ Well ? ” " A mere city knight ! " " Well ? " " Have been at Hackney Academy ! " " Well ? " " Well ! By my faith , but it is not well . I am surrounded by public school - men - peers ...
... Wilson . " I am a merchant's son , " said Sterling . “ Well ? ” " A mere city knight ! " " Well ? " " Have been at Hackney Academy ! " " Well ? " " Well ! By my faith , but it is not well . I am surrounded by public school - men - peers ...
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... Wilson , do you know me . If you are satisfied with a Merchant Tailor's garden and obscurity , well . I trust , and dare say , you will be happy ; but I look to a higher flight . " " And to be unhappy , " answered Wilson , not much ...
... Wilson , do you know me . If you are satisfied with a Merchant Tailor's garden and obscurity , well . I trust , and dare say , you will be happy ; but I look to a higher flight . " " And to be unhappy , " answered Wilson , not much ...
Page 49
... Wilson professed his ignorance of his meaning . " But if your grievance is , as I suppose , " said he , " some silly airs they have given themselves , I would not add to their triumph by being silly myself . ” " I will cut them ...
... Wilson professed his ignorance of his meaning . " But if your grievance is , as I suppose , " said he , " some silly airs they have given themselves , I would not add to their triumph by being silly myself . ” " I will cut them ...
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Page 299 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 73 - And posts like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad: but when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth, Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
Page 53 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there"; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 238 - When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
Page 128 - O NIGHTINGALE that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.
Page 4 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Page 48 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Page 32 - Athenae non tam operibus magnificis exquisitisque antiquorum artibus delectant, quam recordatione summorum virorum, ubi quisque habitare, ubi sedere, ubi disputare sit solitus, studioseque eorum etiam sepulcra contemplor.
Page 73 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Page 72 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...