Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.H. Colburn, 1839 |
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... and left him in his usual abstracted state , as soon as they separated . I soon found out that the gentleman who had so attracted my notice was a Mr. Sterling , son " of a former Sir Robert Sterling ; but nobody could INTRODUCTION . 5.
... and left him in his usual abstracted state , as soon as they separated . I soon found out that the gentleman who had so attracted my notice was a Mr. Sterling , son " of a former Sir Robert Sterling ; but nobody could INTRODUCTION . 5.
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Robert Plumer Ward. of a former Sir Robert Sterling ; but nobody could give me any accurate account of him , except that he had been a daily visitor of the club , ever since it was first founded . As I was , however , acquainted with Lord ...
Robert Plumer Ward. of a former Sir Robert Sterling ; but nobody could give me any accurate account of him , except that he had been a daily visitor of the club , ever since it was first founded . As I was , however , acquainted with Lord ...
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... Sir Robert Sterling , and the friend of Lord Langston , be an upstart ? " " Our " Aye , there it is , " returned he . foolish titles give but false ideas of consequence , and lead to errors which I have often rued . Better for me , if ...
... Sir Robert Sterling , and the friend of Lord Langston , be an upstart ? " " Our " Aye , there it is , " returned he . foolish titles give but false ideas of consequence , and lead to errors which I have often rued . Better for me , if ...
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Robert Plumer Ward. " O , it's all owing to our good father's charac- ter . But really , Robert , you take all this as if you were not obliged , or at least not pleased , by such marks of respect . " say " Sir Robert , no doubt , ought ...
Robert Plumer Ward. " O , it's all owing to our good father's charac- ter . But really , Robert , you take all this as if you were not obliged , or at least not pleased , by such marks of respect . " say " Sir Robert , no doubt , ought ...
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Robert Plumer Ward. " And you , my difficult brother , will of course receive ... Sir James—— ” " Endeavours to ape his betters in St. James's Street , and is ... Sir Capel Hopkins- who married Lady Juliana Sallowfield - who must please ...
Robert Plumer Ward. " And you , my difficult brother , will of course receive ... Sir James—— ” " Endeavours to ape his betters in St. James's Street , and is ... Sir Capel Hopkins- who married Lady Juliana Sallowfield - who must please ...
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Pictures of the World: At Home and Abroad (Classic Reprint) R. P. Ward Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admiration answer aristocratic asked aunt Avington beautiful Bloomsbury Square Bracebridge Brisbane Broadbelt brother called castle certainly character condé countess court daugh Donna doubt duchess duke eyes father favour fear feelings felt Fitzwalter fortune French Revolution garden gave gentleman give happy heard heart Heaven Herzstein honour hope king knew knight of St Lady Euphrasia Lady Melusina Lady Trelawney Las Huelgas laughed least letter liberty look Lord Langston Lord Ormond Lord Rochester Madame Roland manner master Mauleverer Mile End mind Miss Sycamore murder nature never noble observed Oldacre patriots Penruddock perhaps person political pride Principal prioress proud racter Ratcliff recollect reform replied returned Rheindorf Robert Sterling Rosalie Roundhead seemed Sir Robert sister smile Sterling's Strickland superior suppose sure Swithin's tell thing thought tion told truth Tylney Whig Wilson wish wonder young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 4 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...