Matilda: A Tale of the Day, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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Page 251 - That strain again ! it had a dying fall. Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 103 - to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In her heart's table.
Page 76 - as the Miss Tomkins's, though they did make old Tomkins a knight the other day. But an't my brother a baronet ? to say nothing of you, Lady Matilda. Then Dr. Snook says, that Jemima is rather pilmonary, and that the air of Italy will do her good; and to be sure, if it was not for fear of the
Page 1 - IT was early in the month of July, when that most valuable department of the daily press, which is headed " Fashionable Arrangements,'' contained, among many other pieces of information, which, however intrinsically important, would not be so interesting to my readers, the two following paragraphs:— " Lord Ormsby (late the Honourable Augustus Arlingford,) is arrived at
Page 74 - cassimere pelisses, superabundantly bebraided, and black beaver bonnets with pink linings. The only distinction in their appearance, was, that Miss Hobson's round rosy face was—one can't say shaded, with small bright red corkscrew curls; whilst Miss Anne, from having rather a higher bridge to her nose than was common in the family, had taken the Grecian line, and had accordingly drawn
Page 72 - prepared to receive her guests. Miss Betty Dornton was some years older than her brother; and having brought her charms to market at a time when the prospects of her family were not so extensive as they afterwards became, (old uncle Smithson having then formed only the nucleus of that immense wealth, which he afterwards scraped together ; and certainly having no
Page 5 - of insurrection in his neck-cloth. " At least, we shall hear the lions all announced—we shall know who the inmates of the menagerie are to be today." Hardly had this consolation been suggested, when the door was opened, not by the regular officer, the groom of the chambers, who scorned to be a party to so
Page 81 - was that great gentleman, who so civilly wrote to thank our people for killing the Radicals?"—" A Secretary of State, Mamma," said Miss Hobson. "Ah ! Why should not Jem live to be a Secretary of State, Lady Matilda ? I can assure you," continued the fond mother, "that all pains have been taken with his
Page 10 - besides the danger of being devoured, as they would have expressed it, by the two Lady Townlys, to which their present unprotected state seemed to expose them, their misery was increased by the shame of having been convicted, by a dowager duchess and her two unmarried daughters, of having arrived before them ; and