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Page 63
... James's , my revered uncle was at least the banker's equal . On my coming to London , he was kind enough to procure me invitations to some of Lady Ann Newcome's evening parties in Park Lane , as likewise to Mrs. Newcome's entertainments ...
... James's , my revered uncle was at least the banker's equal . On my coming to London , he was kind enough to procure me invitations to some of Lady Ann Newcome's evening parties in Park Lane , as likewise to Mrs. Newcome's entertainments ...
Page 96
... James's Street . Cabmen on the stand are regaling with beer . Gentlemen with grooms be- hind them pass towards the park . Great dowager barouches roll along , emblazoned with coronets , and driven by coachmen in silvery wigs . Wistful ...
... James's Street . Cabmen on the stand are regaling with beer . Gentlemen with grooms be- hind them pass towards the park . Great dowager barouches roll along , emblazoned with coronets , and driven by coachmen in silvery wigs . Wistful ...
Page 126
... James Binnie , of the civil service , a jolly young bachelor of two or three and forty , whc , having spent half of his past life in Bengal , was bent upon enjoying the remainder in Britain or in Europe , if a residence at home should ...
... James Binnie , of the civil service , a jolly young bachelor of two or three and forty , whc , having spent half of his past life in Bengal , was bent upon enjoying the remainder in Britain or in Europe , if a residence at home should ...
Page 128
... James Binnie . On returning to his hotel , Colonel Newcome found this worthy gentleman installed in his room in the best arm - chair sleeping cosily ; the evening paper laid decently over his plump waistcoat , and his little legs ...
... James Binnie . On returning to his hotel , Colonel Newcome found this worthy gentleman installed in his room in the best arm - chair sleeping cosily ; the evening paper laid decently over his plump waistcoat , and his little legs ...
Page 129
... James ? " says the Colonel , lighting a cheroot as he sits on the table . Was it joy , or the bedroom candle with which he lighted his cigar , which illuminated his honest features so , and made them so to shine ? " I have been occupied ...
... James ? " says the Colonel , lighting a cheroot as he sits on the table . Was it joy , or the bedroom candle with which he lighted his cigar , which illuminated his honest features so , and made them so to shine ? " I have been occupied ...
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Page 16 - He was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again: I know that statement's not original: What statement is, since Shakspere?
Page 315 - Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight. The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 357 - ... confided to me subsequently as compiler of this biography, or are of such a nature that they must have happened from what we know happened after. For example, when you read such words as QVE ROMANVS on a battered Roman stone, your profound antiquarian knowledge enables you to assert that SfiNATVS POPVLVS was also inscribed there at some time or other.
Page 242 - ... from his mouth, and stooping down he kissed the little white hand with a great deal of grace and dignity. There was no point of resemblance, and yet a something in the girl's look, voice, and movements, which caused his heart to thrill, and an image out of the past to rise up and salute him. The eyes which had brightened his youth (and which he saw...
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Page 60 - I won't sit in the kitchen and boose in the servants' hall. As for that Tom Jones — that fellow that sells himself, sir — by heavens, my blood boils when I think of him ! I would n't sit down in the same room with such a fellow, sir. If he came in at that door, I would say, 'How dare you, you hireling ruffian, to sully with your presence an apartment where my young friend and I are conversing together ? where two gentlemen, I say, are taking their wine after dinner ? How dare you, you degraded...
Page 249 - Who was it that took the children to Astley's but Uncle Newcome? I saw him there in the midst of a cluster of these little people, all children together. He laughed delighted at Mr. Merryman's jokes in the ring. He beheld the Battle of Waterloo with breathless interest, and was amazed — amazed, by Jove, sir — at the prodigious likeness of the principal actor to the Emperor Napoleon...