Arlington: A Novel, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832 |
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Page 48 - Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at once ; That in good time the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense and fashionable waste Should prove your ruin, and his own at last ; Train him in public with a mob of boys, Childish in mischief only and in noise, Else of a mannish growth, and five in ten In infidelity and lewdness men.
Page 155 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Page 240 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 59 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 310 - Skill'd by a touch to deepen scandal's tints With all the kind mendacity of hints, While mingling truth with falsehood — sneers with smiles— A thread of candour with a web of wiles...
Page 100 - But, where duty renders a critical situation a necessary one, it is our business to keep free from the evils attendant upon it ; and not to fly from the situation itself. If a fortress is seated in an unwholesome air, an officer of the garrison is obliged to be attentive to his health, but he must not desert his station.
Page 252 - Calais," said young Leighton, "in less time than the Government courier. No other Englishman ever did that" "Hem! I am not sure of that," said Lord Bolsover; "but 111 just tell you what I have done — from Rome to Naples in nineteen hours; a fact, upon my honour — and from Naples to Paris in six days." " Partly by sea ?" " No ! all by land ;" replied Lord Bolsover, with a look of proud satisfaction. " I'll just tell you what I did,
Page 252 - I came from Vienna to Calais,' said young Leighton, * in less time than the Government courier. No other Englishman ever did that...
Page 126 - Nor every friend unrotten at the core ; First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself: Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix : Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
Page 251 - Vol. I, chapt. 15 (Vgl. S. 222) "Listen", said he, "and you will hear more of the uses and advantages of travel." Mr. Theobald at that instant was speaking to Lord Bolsover. "I will just tell you what I did. Brussels, Frankfort, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Milan, Naples and Paris; and all that in two months. No man has ever done it in less.