The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, Volume 2Bradbury and Evans, 1854 - 375 pages |
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Page 8 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 177 - The wicked are wicked no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do ? To her sister-in-law, Lady Ann, the Colonel's society was more welcome.
Page 2 - So the tales were told ages before ^Esop: and asses under lions' manes roared in Hebrew; and sly foxes flattered in Etruscan ; and wolves in sheep's clothing gnashed their teeth in Sanscrit, no doubt. The sun shines to-day as he did when he first began shining; and the birds in the tree overhead, while I am writing, sing very much the same note they have sung ever since they were finches.
Page 6 - I'm sorry to see you, gentlemen, drinking brandy-pawnee," says he; "it plays the deuce with our young men in India.") He joined in all the choruses with an exceedingly sweet voice. He laughed at " The Derby Ram " so that it did you good to hear him ; and when Hoskins sang (as he did admirably)
Page 189 - Dr. Johnson, talked admirably, but did not write English ; that young Keats was a genius to be estimated in future days with young Raphael ; and that a young gentleman of Cambridge, who had lately published two volumes of verses, might take rank with the greatest poets of all.
Page 76 - It is the fashion to run down George IV., but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton ! One of the best of physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton.
Page 10 - I'm not sorry that my son should see, for once in his life, to what shame and degradation and dishonour, drunkenness and whiskey may bring a man. Never mind the change, sir! Curse the change!' says the Colonel, facing the amazed waiter. 'Keep it till you see me in this place again; which will be never — by George, never!
Page 8 - ... fired off a tipsy howl by way of overture, and away he went. At the end of the second verse the Colonel started up, clapping on his hat, seizing his stick, and looking as ferocious as though he had been going to do battle with a Pindaree. "Silence!" he roared out. "Hear, hear!" cried certain wags at a farther table. "Go on, Costigan!
Page 2 - If authors sneer, it is the critics's business to sneer at them for sneering. He must pretend to be their superior, or who would care about his opinion? And his livelihood is to find fault. Besides he is right sometimes ; and the stories he reads, and the characters drawn in them, are old sure enough.
Page 8 - cries the Colonel, in his high voice, trembling with anger "Does any gentleman say ' Go on?' Does any man who has a wife and sisters, or children at home, say 'Go on' to such disgusting ribaldry as this ? Do you dare, sir, to call yourself a gentleman, and to say that you hold the king's commission, and to sit down amongst Christians and men of honour, and defile the ears of young boys with this wicked balderdash?