Peers and Parvenus: A Novel, Band 2H. Colburn, 1846 |
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... nature of Jervis ; and without pre- tending to disguise that he had suffered his thoughts to stray from Fairfax's lengthy dis- sertation , he replied - his smile changing into - a blush as he proceeded , " I was PEERS AND PARVENUS . 5.
... nature of Jervis ; and without pre- tending to disguise that he had suffered his thoughts to stray from Fairfax's lengthy dis- sertation , he replied - his smile changing into - a blush as he proceeded , " I was PEERS AND PARVENUS . 5.
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... nature ! All that is spontaneous in the graces of the old world , is , with Americans , the result of schooling . Im- possible to be more artificial , -impossible to be more superficial . " — " I am half inclined to retort upon you ...
... nature ! All that is spontaneous in the graces of the old world , is , with Americans , the result of schooling . Im- possible to be more artificial , -impossible to be more superficial . " — " I am half inclined to retort upon you ...
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... nature would have had enough to eat and wherewithal to be clothed , without encroach- ing on or envying the privileges of fine folks like my friend Attleborough - by Jove ! one begins to consider literature as great a curse as original ...
... nature would have had enough to eat and wherewithal to be clothed , without encroach- ing on or envying the privileges of fine folks like my friend Attleborough - by Jove ! one begins to consider literature as great a curse as original ...
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... nature had given rise , — " after all , is not this self - isolation of mine the result of false shame , rather than of virtue or philosophy ? Was it not more the sense of my inferiority than the duty of self- sacrifice , that ...
... nature had given rise , — " after all , is not this self - isolation of mine the result of false shame , rather than of virtue or philosophy ? Was it not more the sense of my inferiority than the duty of self- sacrifice , that ...
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... by Philip Fairfax , who was so well qualified to avouch his deserts , to the heads of the various academies of Naples . By the mode of his reception , however , he saw that , though the nature of his univer- sity PEERS AND PARVENUS . 35.
... by Philip Fairfax , who was so well qualified to avouch his deserts , to the heads of the various academies of Naples . By the mode of his reception , however , he saw that , though the nature of his univer- sity PEERS AND PARVENUS . 35.
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Seite 54 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 194 - Love is an offering of the whole heart, Madam, A sacrifice of all that poor life hath ; And he who gives his ' all,' — whate'er that be, Gives greatly, — and deserveth no one's scorn ! 131.
Seite 133 - My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne, And all the day an unaccustom'd spirit Raises me from the ground with cheerful thoughts, — burst simultaneously from the lips of the three girls.
Seite 267 - But now our joys are fled On winter blasts awa; Yet maiden May, in rich array, Again shall bring them a'. But my white pow, nae kindly thowe Shall melt the snaws of age ; My trunk of eild, but buss or bield, Sinks in Time's wint'ry rage. Oh, age has weary days, And nights o' sleepless pain; Thou golden time o' youthful prime, Why com'st thou not again?
Seite 42 - to whom much is given, from him much shall be required.' " This letter, far from serving the purpose for which it was intended, of rousing...