The Old Court Suburb: Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1855 - 288 страници |
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... reader is our companion ; that we are giving him what information we possess in return for the pleasure of his society ; and that we say neither more nor less on any one of the objects , than might naturally be said between friends ...
... reader is our companion ; that we are giving him what information we possess in return for the pleasure of his society ; and that we say neither more nor less on any one of the objects , than might naturally be said between friends ...
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... reader may fancy him thus coming towards Knightsbridge , ready to take off the hat in the highest style of good - breeding to any- body that courted it , or to give the gentle- man " satisfaction , " if he was disrespectful to the ...
... reader may fancy him thus coming towards Knightsbridge , ready to take off the hat in the highest style of good - breeding to any- body that courted it , or to give the gentle- man " satisfaction , " if he was disrespectful to the ...
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... readers , who agree with Mr. Taylor in thinking Sir Philip Francis to have been Junius , should regret their never having seen that once invisible personage , we have the pleasure of informing them , that the portrait prefixed to the ...
... readers , who agree with Mr. Taylor in thinking Sir Philip Francis to have been Junius , should regret their never having seen that once invisible personage , we have the pleasure of informing them , that the portrait prefixed to the ...
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... readers of a work like the present will probably expect us to give our opinion on the subject at greater length , than would otherwise have been the case . * * The feelings of the book , as far as the chief persons in it are concerned ...
... readers of a work like the present will probably expect us to give our opinion on the subject at greater length , than would otherwise have been the case . * * The feelings of the book , as far as the chief persons in it are concerned ...
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... reader standing much longer than we intended at the steps of Gore House with this prefatory digression on such matters , we are sure he will be pleased at having it laid before him . " Such things as ensue upon what is well constituted ...
... reader standing much longer than we intended at the steps of Gore House with this prefatory digression on such matters , we are sure he will be pleased at having it laid before him . " Such things as ensue upon what is well constituted ...
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Страница 227 - His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed His virtues were so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly; Ah, many's the time and oft!
Страница 194 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Страница 41 - I will not attempt with profane hands to tear the sacred veil of the sanctuary; I am disposed, with the inhabitants of Attica, to erect an altar to the unknown god of our political idolatry, and will be content to worship him in clouds and darkness.
Страница 48 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Страница 274 - Not who first see the rising sun commands, But who could first discern the rising lands. Who best could know to pump an earth so leak, Him they their lord, and country's father, speak. To make a bank was a great plot of state ; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
Страница 26 - Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Страница 226 - TOM BOWLING HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft.