Kenelm Chillingly, his adventures and opinions, by the author of 'The Caxtons'. |
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... as I've seen else- where , But if you choose Sir John Hogg you'll not get the wrong sow by the ear ! ' ” " At least , " said George , after a laugh at this sample of eloquence unadorned , " Mr Steen does 22 KENELM CHILLINGLY .
... as I've seen else- where , But if you choose Sir John Hogg you'll not get the wrong sow by the ear ! ' ” " At least , " said George , after a laugh at this sample of eloquence unadorned , " Mr Steen does 22 KENELM CHILLINGLY .
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... laughter , Cecilia felt a certain awe at the solemnity of voice and manner with which Kenelm delivered these oracular sentences , and the whole prediction seemed strangely in unison with her own impressions of the character whose fate ...
... laughter , Cecilia felt a certain awe at the solemnity of voice and manner with which Kenelm delivered these oracular sentences , and the whole prediction seemed strangely in unison with her own impressions of the character whose fate ...
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... laughter . This big fellow had one very agreeable gift , which is only granted , I think , to men of genuine ... laugh had not before come from his lips , since the day on which his love for Jessie Wiles had made him at war with ...
... laughter . This big fellow had one very agreeable gift , which is only granted , I think , to men of genuine ... laugh had not before come from his lips , since the day on which his love for Jessie Wiles had made him at war with ...
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... laughed . one girl in my friend's house - his niece ; she is very plain , and only thirteen . But to me the society of women , whether ugly or pretty , is an absolute necessity ; and I have been trudging without it for so many days that ...
... laughed . one girl in my friend's house - his niece ; she is very plain , and only thirteen . But to me the society of women , whether ugly or pretty , is an absolute necessity ; and I have been trudging without it for so many days that ...
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... laugh . " But I can't have my little niece laid up again just as she is on the mend — Annie , come in . " The girl obeyed reluctantly . The old lady rose too . " Ah , mother , you are wise , " said the bald man ; " and a game at euchre ...
... laugh . " But I can't have my little niece laid up again just as she is on the mend — Annie , come in . " The girl obeyed reluctantly . The old lady rose too . " Ah , mother , you are wise , " said the bald man ; " and a game at euchre ...
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Page 183 - Is it not strange that we mortals, placed amid perpetual agitation and tumult and strife, as if our natural element, conceive a sense of holiness in the images antagonistic to our real life; I mean in images of repose? I feel at the moment as if I suddenly were made better, now that heaven and earth have suddenly become yet more tranquil. I am now conscious of a purer and sweeter moral than either I or you drew from the insect you have sheltered. I must come to the poets to express it, — " ' The...
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Page 354 - an innocent " ! — this a girl who had no mind to be formed! In that presence he could not be cynical ; could not speak of Nature as a mechanism, a lying humbug, as he had done to the man poet. He replied gravely, — " The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native TOL. I. — 27 language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great...