Maxwell, Band 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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acquaintance affair affection agitation Alsop appeared Apperton arrival ascer believe Bermondsey Biddle boat brig Brighton Captain Somerford carriage Cat and Cauliflower cere Charles Somerford circum circumstances cockatoos conceal confess connexion considered conversation daugh daughter dear door dreadful duty Edward Edward Maxwell elder Maxwell eyes father feelings felt Funchal Godfrey Moss Hanningham happiness hear heard heart Hilton honour hope husband illegitimacy Isle of Wight Kate Kate's Katharine knew letter London look Lord Bryanston Lord Hillingdon lordship ma'am Madeira maid Maria married matter Maxwell's mean ment mind mistress mother mystery nature never nexion object old gentleman parent perhaps person perton poor portmanteau Portsmouth proceeded recollect replied ruin secret seemed seen servant ship Somer son-in-law sorrow stockbroker sure surgeon tell thing thought tion told voyage walk Whilelmina wife wish young lady
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Seite 248 - If we do meet again, why we shall smile ; If not, why then this parting was well made.
Seite 188 - THERE is a creature who has all the organs of speech, a tolerable good capacity for conceiving what is said to it, together with a pretty proper behaviour in all the occurrences of common life; but naturally very vacant of thought in itself, and therefore forced to apply itself to foreign assistances. Of this make is that man who is very inquisitive. You may often observe, that though he speaks as good sense as any man upon any thing with which he is well acquainted, he cannot...
Seite 219 - Sweet source of virtue, O sacred sorrow ! he who knows not thee Knows not the best emotions of the heart, — Those tender tears that harmonize the soul, The sigh that charms, the pang that gives delight.
Seite 315 - When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart. And breathes in free and uncorrupted praise For benefits received : propitious heaven Takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense. And doubles all its blessings.
Seite 84 - Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,— a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!
Seite 1 - Wedded love is founded on esteem, Which the fair merits of the mind engage, For those are charms that never can decay ; But time, which gives new whiteness to the swan, Improves their lustre.
Seite 307 - Hilton, however, was assiduously attentive to the Maxwells, and left nothing undone in the shape of civilly worrying them to death, to try to eat, and to try to drink, and to try to get up, and to try to walk about; for all of which acts of nautical gallantry every one of the party most devoutly wished him at the bottom of the element on the surface of which it was his trade to travel.
Seite 209 - A surgeon ought to have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
Seite 77 - ... (his Maxwell is the speaker), " that the romance of real life is more filled with extraordinary events than the mind of the poet or the fabulous historian would imagine." And this observation is supposed to be made a propos of a combination of circumstances, jumbling him and his friends together, " so far beyond the belief of common-place people, that, if it were written in a book, the reader would call it, if not impossible, at least too improbable to appear the least natural.
Seite 73 - Hook, for one, is mightily addicted to " ventilation" of the remark. " I have always thought, and not unfrequently said" (his Maxwell is the speaker), " that the romance of real life is more filled with extraordinary events, than the mind of the poet or the fabulous historian would imagine."^ And this observation is supposed to be made a propos of a combination of circumstances, jumbling him and his friends together, " so far beyond the belief of common-place people, that, if it were written in a...