The Chiltern HundredsVirtue, 1897 - 220 էջ |
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Էջ 75
... boy , and holding her lover's horse , according to the popular story . Even worse things were said of her , too monstrous to be repeated . Samuel Pepys , who dearly loved to set down in his diary a bit of Court scandal , tells of the ...
... boy , and holding her lover's horse , according to the popular story . Even worse things were said of her , too monstrous to be repeated . Samuel Pepys , who dearly loved to set down in his diary a bit of Court scandal , tells of the ...
Էջ 87
... boys , who died in 1883. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister in Ireland , and was intended for the ministry himself , but found his way into the United States army . Leaving Bulstrode , we turn westward , and climbing higher up ...
... boys , who died in 1883. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister in Ireland , and was intended for the ministry himself , but found his way into the United States army . Leaving Bulstrode , we turn westward , and climbing higher up ...
Էջ 97
... boy of fourteen , Henry Curwen , who belonged to an old family at Workington , in Cumberland , and who died at the Rectory House in 1636 , while a pupil of Dr. Croke , the Rector . The figure is that of a thin and long- faced individual ...
... boy of fourteen , Henry Curwen , who belonged to an old family at Workington , in Cumberland , and who died at the Rectory House in 1636 , while a pupil of Dr. Croke , the Rector . The figure is that of a thin and long- faced individual ...
Էջ 141
... boy , and to which every old Etonian will turn for a comfortable . lodging when he comes to revisit his old haunts . Horace Walpole came down on just such an occasion , expecting to hear an old schoolfellow , Thomas Asheton , now ...
... boy , and to which every old Etonian will turn for a comfortable . lodging when he comes to revisit his old haunts . Horace Walpole came down on just such an occasion , expecting to hear an old schoolfellow , Thomas Asheton , now ...
Էջ 142
... boy . " The Christo- pher , " he writes , " Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at The Christopher . But here are no boys for me to send for - here I am like Noah just returned into his old world again , with all sorts ...
... boy . " The Christo- pher , " he writes , " Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at The Christopher . But here are no boys for me to send for - here I am like Noah just returned into his old world again , with all sorts ...
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Էջ 72 - 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Էջ 74 - 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 repaired 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...
Էջ 112 - I modestly but freely told him : and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found...
Էջ 170 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Էջ 113 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Էջ 160 - Angling was, after tedious study, 'a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Էջ 81 - ... both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
Էջ 80 - The description of a road, which your coach wheels have so often honoured, it would be needless to give you ; suffice it that I arrived safe at my uncle's, who is a great hunter in imagination ; his dogs take up every chair in the house, so I am forced to stand at this present writing ; and though the gout forbids him galloping after them in the field, yet he continues still to 4 regale his ears and nose with their comfortable noise and stink.
Էջ 176 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your Songs and Odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollifies.
Էջ 74 - No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends!