Typical selections from the best English authors, with introductory notices [by E. E. Smith], Volume 21876 |
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... clothes , with cakes , loaves , pasties , and pies of all sorts , on their heads , and after them two buffoons , or jack - puddings , with their faces and clothes smeared with meal , who diverted the mob with their antic gestures . In ...
... clothes , with cakes , loaves , pasties , and pies of all sorts , on their heads , and after them two buffoons , or jack - puddings , with their faces and clothes smeared with meal , who diverted the mob with their antic gestures . In ...
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... is most commonly to be placed to his account . I was just set up in my trade when I made three suits of fine clothes for King Stephen's coronation . I question whether the person , who wears the rich coat , HENRY FIELDING . 55.
... is most commonly to be placed to his account . I was just set up in my trade when I made three suits of fine clothes for King Stephen's coronation . I question whether the person , who wears the rich coat , HENRY FIELDING . 55.
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... clothes walked by , Bless me , was ever any thing so fine as the Earl of Devonshire ! Sure he and Sir Hugh Bigot are the two best dressed men I ever saw . Now both of those suits were of my making . There would indeed be infinite ...
... clothes walked by , Bless me , was ever any thing so fine as the Earl of Devonshire ! Sure he and Sir Hugh Bigot are the two best dressed men I ever saw . Now both of those suits were of my making . There would indeed be infinite ...
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... clothes , as very often happened , we had no method of compelling him . In several of the characters which I have related to you I apprehend I have sometimes forgot myself , and considered myself as really interested as I was when I ...
... clothes , as very often happened , we had no method of compelling him . In several of the characters which I have related to you I apprehend I have sometimes forgot myself , and considered myself as really interested as I was when I ...
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... cloth in my life , nor was indeed much more able to fashion a coat than any gentleman in the kingdom . This made a skilful servant too necessary to me . He knew I must submit to any terms with , or any treatment from , him . He knew it ...
... cloth in my life , nor was indeed much more able to fashion a coat than any gentleman in the kingdom . This made a skilful servant too necessary to me . He knew I must submit to any terms with , or any treatment from , him . He knew it ...
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Page 192 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 454 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 188 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 196 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 76 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 195 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
Page 451 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 461 - ... with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted fame.
Page 455 - Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith.