Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of Novels by the Author of Waverley, Band 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne, and Green, 1824 |
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... conducted in solitude and silence ; no one of the family being permitted to enter his little darkened room while he 录 D'Israeli's Cur . Lit. vol . i . page 196 . was engaged in them . Such was their fasci- cination 14.
... conducted in solitude and silence ; no one of the family being permitted to enter his little darkened room while he 录 D'Israeli's Cur . Lit. vol . i . page 196 . was engaged in them . Such was their fasci- cination 14.
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... conducted . The illegitimate son of the Duke of Burgundy had come to England , to make proposals of marriage with Edward IVth's sister . A tilting match was held in honour of the lady ; Anthony Woodville , the Queen's brother ...
... conducted . The illegitimate son of the Duke of Burgundy had come to England , to make proposals of marriage with Edward IVth's sister . A tilting match was held in honour of the lady ; Anthony Woodville , the Queen's brother ...
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... than in part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; nor ever conducted with so much quaint ceremony and solemn formality . The introduction of this pernicious practice into the world is a matter of 110 DUELLING. ...
... than in part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; nor ever conducted with so much quaint ceremony and solemn formality . The introduction of this pernicious practice into the world is a matter of 110 DUELLING. ...
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... conduct her to her sick mother . On the way , an armed ambush , which he had secretly provided , started into the road , smote her on the arm , and beat down her servant . Her friend pretended to relieve her ; but it was only to carry ...
... conduct her to her sick mother . On the way , an armed ambush , which he had secretly provided , started into the road , smote her on the arm , and beat down her servant . Her friend pretended to relieve her ; but it was only to carry ...
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... conducted with as much courtesy and form as an affair of mortal strife could be supposed to admit . It must be allowed , however , that if the ferocity of the preceding age was melio . rated by the restoration of legal authority , and ...
... conducted with as much courtesy and form as an affair of mortal strife could be supposed to admit . It must be allowed , however , that if the ferocity of the preceding age was melio . rated by the restoration of legal authority , and ...
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Seite 173 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Seite 375 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Seite 333 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Seite 333 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was...
Seite 333 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 223 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 334 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Seite 284 - It is the market of young lecturers, whom you may cheapen here at all rates and sizes. It is the general mint of all famous lies, which are here like the legends of popery, first coined and stamped in the church. All inventions are emptied here, and not few pockets. The best sign of a temple in it is, that it is the thieves...
Seite 128 - I am slain !" seconding his speech with all the force he had to cast me. But being too weak, after I had defended his assault, I easily became master of him, laying him on his back ; when being upon him, I re-demanded if he would request his life, but it seemed he prized it not at so dear a rate to be beholden for it; bravely replying "he scorned * Levelling.
Seite 5 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...