Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Robert Plumer Ward. GENERAL PREFACE . I HAVE a thousand fears for the reception of these tales . The first of them , ' Sterling , ' may possi- bly not be disrelished by those who are interested by pictures of the mind or heart strongly ...
Robert Plumer Ward. GENERAL PREFACE . I HAVE a thousand fears for the reception of these tales . The first of them , ' Sterling , ' may possi- bly not be disrelished by those who are interested by pictures of the mind or heart strongly ...
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... fear and trembling , their turn of audience . This over , he was ushered into the august presence . The room was well carpeted and arm - chaired , and set off by tables loaded with open folios ; the whole scene exhibiting , in its style ...
... fear and trembling , their turn of audience . This over , he was ushered into the august presence . The room was well carpeted and arm - chaired , and set off by tables loaded with open folios ; the whole scene exhibiting , in its style ...
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Robert Plumer Ward. to fear . Yet , I believe young people who have been confined to the City , as I understand you have been , or at best brought up at a private school , or academy , as it is called - I think you were at Hackney ...
Robert Plumer Ward. to fear . Yet , I believe young people who have been confined to the City , as I understand you have been , or at best brought up at a private school , or academy , as it is called - I think you were at Hackney ...
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... fear ; for I am pleased to find from Mr. Lambert , that , thanks I suppose to Mr. Barker ( we will say nothing of Hackney ) , your progress has not been incon- siderable . But , with your apparent feelings , I much fear that , as a ...
... fear ; for I am pleased to find from Mr. Lambert , that , thanks I suppose to Mr. Barker ( we will say nothing of Hackney ) , your progress has not been incon- siderable . But , with your apparent feelings , I much fear that , as a ...
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... fear than the last . " I suppose , " said he to himself , " I shall be again treated with all my inferiorities . But when I inform him of my hope for a higher rank in the college , he may think differently . Yet , what a fool am I , to ...
... fear than the last . " I suppose , " said he to himself , " I shall be again treated with all my inferiorities . But when I inform him of my hope for a higher rank in the college , he may think differently . Yet , what a fool am I , to ...
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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...