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Page 565
... Beauchamp came to the full re- ceipt of a fortune of two or three thou- sand a - year , which , though hereditary , was at his absolute disposal - about the period of his return from those continental peregrinations which are judged ...
... Beauchamp came to the full re- ceipt of a fortune of two or three thou- sand a - year , which , though hereditary , was at his absolute disposal - about the period of his return from those continental peregrinations which are judged ...
Page 566
... Beauchamp looked to in selecting him . Beauchamp got regularly in- troduced to the set to which his tutor belonged ; but his mother's lively and incessant surveillance put it out of his power to embarrass himself by serious losses . He ...
... Beauchamp looked to in selecting him . Beauchamp got regularly in- troduced to the set to which his tutor belonged ; but his mother's lively and incessant surveillance put it out of his power to embarrass himself by serious losses . He ...
Page 567
... Beauchamp took the very first opportunity he could seize of ask- ing his mother , with some trepida- tion , " whether Ellen was enga- ged ! " " I think she is not , " replied his delighted mother , bursting into tears , and folding him ...
... Beauchamp took the very first opportunity he could seize of ask- ing his mother , with some trepida- tion , " whether Ellen was enga- ged ! " " I think she is not , " replied his delighted mother , bursting into tears , and folding him ...
Page 568
... Beauchamp , to- gether with the haughty and con- strained civility of her son , soon warned Mr Eccles that his departure from the Hall could not be delayed ; and he very shortly withdrew . Mr Beauchamp began to breathe freely , as it ...
... Beauchamp , to- gether with the haughty and con- strained civility of her son , soon warned Mr Eccles that his departure from the Hall could not be delayed ; and he very shortly withdrew . Mr Beauchamp began to breathe freely , as it ...
Page 569
... Beauchamp was touched with the air of languor and exhaustion assu- med by Sir Edward , and asked kind- ly after his ... Beauchamp's arri- val in the papers , he had hurried , ill as he was , to pay a visit to his " old chum , " and ...
... Beauchamp was touched with the air of languor and exhaustion assu- med by Sir Edward , and asked kind- ly after his ... Beauchamp's arri- val in the papers , he had hurried , ill as he was , to pay a visit to his " old chum , " and ...
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Page 591 - But the father said to his servants ; Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat and be merry ; For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 539 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 538 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 375 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, 50 That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 350 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 349 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
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Page 375 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Page 265 - We marched them into the woods off the road, and having used them as Regulators were wont to use such delinquents, we set fire to the cabin, gave all the skins and implements to the young Indian warrior, and proceeded, well pleased, towards the settlements.
Page 51 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...