Rosamund Gray: Recollections of Christ's Hospital, Etc. EtcMoxon, 1838 - 356 pages |
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Page 23
... physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund , qualities which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come , when Elinor was desirous of knowing her brother's favourite ...
... physiognomist , and thought she could trace in the countenance and manner of Rosamund , qualities which no brother of hers need be ashamed to love . The time was now come , when Elinor was desirous of knowing her brother's favourite ...
Page 74
... , the gestures , the behaviour , the manner of their play with one another , their deportment towards strangers , the whole aspect and physiognomy of that vast assemblage of boys on the London foundation , 74 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... , the gestures , the behaviour , the manner of their play with one another , their deportment towards strangers , the whole aspect and physiognomy of that vast assemblage of boys on the London foundation , 74 RECOLLECTIONS OF.
Page 198
... physiognomies which we sometimes catch a glance of in the street , and , struck with their whimsicality , wish for a pencil and the power to sketch them down ; and forget them again as rapidly , -but they are permanent abiding ideas ...
... physiognomies which we sometimes catch a glance of in the street , and , struck with their whimsicality , wish for a pencil and the power to sketch them down ; and forget them again as rapidly , -but they are permanent abiding ideas ...
Page 200
... physiognomy , than this effect occasioned : nor was there wanting beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth , in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet , so ...
... physiognomy , than this effect occasioned : nor was there wanting beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth , in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet , so ...
Page 244
... physiognomy . I quarrel not with the principles of this science , as they are laid down by learned professors ; much less am I disposed , with some people , to deny its exist- ence altogether as any inlet of knowledge that can be ...
... physiognomy . I quarrel not with the principles of this science , as they are laid down by learned professors ; much less am I disposed , with some people , to deny its exist- ence altogether as any inlet of knowledge that can be ...
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1st Footman 1st Gent 1st Lady 2d Footman 2d Gent 2d Lady 2d Waiter Allan Clare appetite beautiful Belvil better boys character CHARLES LAMB Christ's Hospital cottage countenance creature curiosity dear death deformity delight dizzard dream EDWARD MOXON Elinor express eye of mind eyes face fancy feel gentleman Gin Lane girl give grandmother Hamlet hanging happy hath hear heart Hogarth honour human humour images innocence John Tomkins kind Landlord Lear living look Lord Macbeth Madam maid Margaret Maria Matravis melancholy Melesinda mind mirth Miss Clare moral Mother Damnable nature never old lady Othello passion person physiognomy play pleasure poet poor Rake's Progress REFLECTOR ROSAMUND GRAY scene seems servants Shakspeare smile sort soul speak spirit suffer sweet Tamburlaine tender thing THOMAS MIDDLETON thought tion tragedy virtue Widford WILLIAM ROWLEY wonder young