Roundabout PapersSmith, Elder, 1863 - 352 páginas |
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... gentle reader , and begs to state , " etc .; but " I " is better and straighter than all these grimaces of modesty ; and although these are Roundabout Papers , and may wander who knows whither , I shall ask leave to maintain the upright ...
... gentle reader , and begs to state , " etc .; but " I " is better and straighter than all these grimaces of modesty ; and although these are Roundabout Papers , and may wander who knows whither , I shall ask leave to maintain the upright ...
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... gentle , and to remember to pray to God always for his mother , who would pray for her boy too . Our party made friends with these young ones during the little journey ; but the poor lady was too sad to talk except to the boys now and ...
... gentle , and to remember to pray to God always for his mother , who would pray for her boy too . Our party made friends with these young ones during the little journey ; but the poor lady was too sad to talk except to the boys now and ...
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... gentle reader , for who has not written his novel nowadays ? who has not a claim to the star and straw - colored rib- bon ? and who shall have the biggest and largest ? Fancy the struggle ! Fancy the squabble ! Fancy the distribution of ...
... gentle reader , for who has not written his novel nowadays ? who has not a claim to the star and straw - colored rib- bon ? and who shall have the biggest and largest ? Fancy the struggle ! Fancy the squabble ! Fancy the distribution of ...
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... gentle remarks for another day . Have the great kindness to stand a leetle aside , and just let us see one or two more rounds between the men . That little man with the one hand power- less on his breast facing yonder giant for hours ...
... gentle remarks for another day . Have the great kindness to stand a leetle aside , and just let us see one or two more rounds between the men . That little man with the one hand power- less on his breast facing yonder giant for hours ...
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... gentle sex . Suppose he had overcome the godlike Trojan ? Sup- pose he had tied Tom's corpse to his cab - wheels , and driven to Farnham , smoking the pipe of triumph ? Faugh ! the great , hulking conqueror ! Why did you not hold your ...
... gentle sex . Suppose he had overcome the godlike Trojan ? Sup- pose he had tied Tom's corpse to his cab - wheels , and driven to Farnham , smoking the pipe of triumph ? Faugh ! the great , hulking conqueror ! Why did you not hold your ...
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Página 292 - God bade him ; each honest in his life ; just and irreproachable in his dealings ; dear to his friends; honored by his country; beloved at his fireside. It has been the fortunate lot of both to give incalculable happiness and delight to the world, which thanks- them in return with an immense kindliness, respect, affection. It may not be our chance, brother scribe, to be endowed with such merit, or rewarded with such fame.
Página 282 - Washington's name : he came amongst us bringing the kindest sympathy, the most artless, smiling goodwill. His new country (which some people here might be disposed to regard rather superciliously) could send us, as he showed in his own person, a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, easy, witty, quiet ; and, socially, the equal of the most refined Europeans.
Página 98 - We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
Página 285 - ... books were sold by hundreds of thousands, nay, millions, when his profits were known to be large, and the habits of life of the good old bachelor were notoriously modest and simple ? He had loved once in his life. The lady he loved died ; and he, whom all the world loved,- never sought to replace her. I can't say how much the thought of that fidelity has touched me. Does not the very cheerfulness of his after life add to the pathos of that untold story...
Página 294 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
Página 162 - My dear ! I am going away for a few days to Brighton. Here are all the keys of the house. You may open every door and closet, except the one at the end of the oak-room opposite the fireplace, with the little bronze Shakespeare on the mantel-piece (or what not).
Página 286 - ... society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood; quite unspoiled by prosperity; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries); eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Página 282 - It would have been easy to speak otherwise than he did: to inflame national rancors, which, at the time when he first became known as a public writer, war had just renewed: to cry down the old civilization at the expense of the new: to point out our faults, arrogance, short-comings, and give the republic to infer how much she was the parent state's superior. There are writers enough in the United States, honest and otherwise, who preach that kind of doctrine. But the good Irving, the peaceful, the...