My Novel: Or, Varieties in English Life, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1851 - English fiction |
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... true ; but how well it speaks for peasant and landlord , when you see that the peasant is fond of his home , and has some spare time and heart to bestow upon mere embellish- ment . Such a peasant is sure to be a bad customer to the ale ...
... true ; but how well it speaks for peasant and landlord , when you see that the peasant is fond of his home , and has some spare time and heart to bestow upon mere embellish- ment . Such a peasant is sure to be a bad customer to the ale ...
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... True ; but the donkey ! " said the Parson , " I've a great mind to buy it . " " Permit me to tell you an anecdote in point , " said Dr. Riccabocca . " Well ? " said the Parson , interrogatively . " Once in a time , " pursued Riccabocca ...
... True ; but the donkey ! " said the Parson , " I've a great mind to buy it . " " Permit me to tell you an anecdote in point , " said Dr. Riccabocca . " Well ? " said the Parson , interrogatively . " Once in a time , " pursued Riccabocca ...
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... true , of being a little inclined to the Black Art , and of a strange inclination to starve Jackeymo and himself , in other respects harmless enough . ― -- But not so at the inclined to be very he was , like most Signior Riccabocca had ...
... true , of being a little inclined to the Black Art , and of a strange inclination to starve Jackeymo and himself , in other respects harmless enough . ― -- But not so at the inclined to be very he was , like most Signior Riccabocca had ...
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... opening his eyes , and letting fall the watering - pot . " It is true , my friend . " " Take him , Padrone , in Heaven's name , and the fields will grow gold . " ་ " I will think of it , for it VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE . 45.
... opening his eyes , and letting fall the watering - pot . " It is true , my friend . " " Take him , Padrone , in Heaven's name , and the fields will grow gold . " ་ " I will think of it , for it VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE . 45.
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... true that he talked the saddest nonsense ever heard from an open window ; but then his jokes were so broad , his manner so hearty , his voice so big , that in those dark days , before the schoolmaster was abroad , he would have beaten ...
... true that he talked the saddest nonsense ever heard from an open window ; but then his jokes were so broad , his manner so hearty , his voice so big , that in those dark days , before the schoolmaster was abroad , he would have beaten ...
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amongst Audley Egerton Aulus Gellius Avenel Belvidere better bless brow called Camarina Captain Barnabas Casino CAXTON CHAPTER Charles dear child church cried the Squire dear Jane Doctor donkey door English Eton eyes face father feeling Frank gentleman Giacomo hand handsome head heart heaven honour Italian Jackeymo knowledge lady land Lansmere learned Lenny Fairfield Lenny's Leonard Fairfield look Lord Bacon marriage married master mind Miss Hazeldean Miss Jemima mother natural neighbours never Nora Novel once Padrone parish Parson Dale paused peasant philosopher PISISTRATUS poor quoth Randal Leslie replied Ricca rich Richard Rickeybockey Rood Hall round sate seemed Signor Riccabocca smile spectacles Squills Squire's Stirn Stocks stood sure tell thing thought Tinker took turned village Violante voice walked widow wife woman word young
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Page 399 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 401 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 184 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 48 - L'Estrange, — and that was, perhaps, the reason why he was so much thought of. He had been by far the most brilliant boy of his time at Eton, — not only the boast of the cricket-ground, but the marvel of the schoolroom ; yet so full of whims and oddities, and seeming to achieve his triumphs with so little aid from steadfast application, that he had not left behind him the same expectations of solid eminence which his friend and senior, Audley Egerton, had excited. His eccentricities, his quaint...
Page 398 - ... to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 328 - He raised eyes, swimming with all his native goodness, towards the wise man, and dropped them gratefully on the face of the infant peace-maker. Then he turned away his head and fairly wept. The Parson was right: "O ye poor, have charity for the rich; O ye rich, respect the poor.
Page 398 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 360 - Gumptious — gumptious. I think I remember the substantive at school — not that my master taught it to me. 'Gumption,
Page 339 - ... indulged them. Thus, it was amidst the saddest corruption of court manners that it became the fashion in Paris to sit for one's picture, with a crook in one's hand, as Alexis or Daphne. Just as liberty was fast dying out of Greece, and the successors of Alexander were founding their monarchies, and Rome was growing up to crush in its iron grasp all states save its own, Plato withdraws his eyes from the world, to open them in his dreamy Atlantis. Just in the grimmest period of English history,...
Page 341 - quoth the doctor, " it is more than two thousand years ago since poor Plato began to level it, and the mountain is as high as ever ! " Thus saying, Riccabocca came to the end of his pipe, and stalking thoughtfully away, he left Leonard Fairfield trying to extract light from the smoke. CHAPTER IX. SHORTLY after this discourse of Riccabocca's, an incident occurred to Leonard that served to carry his mind into new directions. One evening, when his mother was out, he was at work on a new mechanical...