Kenelm Chillingly, his adventures and opinions, by the author of 'The Caxtons'. |
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... sure he will give you his vote . " " Meanwhile , " said George , with a timid attempt at gallantry , as they now com- menced the quadrille , " I take encourage- ment from the belief that I have the good wishes of Miss Travers . If ...
... sure he will give you his vote . " " Meanwhile , " said George , with a timid attempt at gallantry , as they now com- menced the quadrille , " I take encourage- ment from the belief that I have the good wishes of Miss Travers . If ...
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... sure to be in the midst of it . Yes , a very great oddity indeed , full of contradictions , for a milder , quieter fellow in general intercourse you could not see ; and as for the jests of which he was accused in his Examination Papers ...
... sure to be in the midst of it . Yes , a very great oddity indeed , full of contradictions , for a milder , quieter fellow in general intercourse you could not see ; and as for the jests of which he was accused in his Examination Papers ...
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... gaze , evi- dently absorbed in abstract contemplation . Recalling the description of the stranger which he had heard from Mr Lethbridge and the Saundersons , Mr Travers felt sure that he had come on him at last . He 36 CHAPTER IV. ...
... gaze , evi- dently absorbed in abstract contemplation . Recalling the description of the stranger which he had heard from Mr Lethbridge and the Saundersons , Mr Travers felt sure that he had come on him at last . He 36 CHAPTER IV. ...
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... sure , after all , that , if you did pre- vail on me , you would do the individual good you aim at ? It is , no doubt , very pleasant to think one has made a young couple happy . But if that young couple fail in keeping the little shop ...
... sure , after all , that , if you did pre- vail on me , you would do the individual good you aim at ? It is , no doubt , very pleasant to think one has made a young couple happy . But if that young couple fail in keeping the little shop ...
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... sure that it is settled . " Here Mr Travers wound his arm within Kenelm's , and looking him full in the face , said , “ I know that I am speaking to a gentleman at least equal in rank to myself , but as I enjoy the melancholy privilege ...
... sure that it is settled . " Here Mr Travers wound his arm within Kenelm's , and looking him full in the face , said , “ I know that I am speaking to a gentleman at least equal in rank to myself , but as I enjoy the melancholy privilege ...
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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...
Page 353 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud : and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
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...