The parlour novelist1846 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 104 - I began this letter yesterday, but could not finish it till now. I have risen this morning like an infernal frog out of Acheron, covered with the ooze and mud of melancholy.
Pàgina 100 - I tell you again, make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot — clench the nail.
Pàgina 286 - According to my notion, it is of that character which I believe is generally allowed to be most captivating to the other sex, — fair, feminine, nay, perhaps, even fragile — ' Fair as the forms that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head.
Pàgina 127 - The lofty woods, the forests wide and long, Adorn'd with leaves and branches fresh and green, In whose cool bowers the birds, with many a song, Do welcome with their choir the summer's queen; The meadows fair, where Flora's gifts among Are intermix'd, with verdant grass between; The silver-scaled fish that softly swim Within the sweet brook's crystal watery stream.
Pàgina 194 - I'll no say men are villains a' ; The real, hardened wicked, Wha ha'e nae check but human law, Are to a few restricted : But och, mankind are unco weak, An...
Pàgina 270 - O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH.
Pàgina 128 - ... endanger our futurity ; and to provide ourselves of the virtuoso's saddle, which will be sure to amble, when the world is upon the hardest trot. What I humbly offer to your lordship, is of this nature. I wish it pleasant, and am sure it is innocent.
Pàgina 157 - ... the rocks are perpendicular, bare and stern — now sending over their beetling summits a little cascade, that falls at your feet in diamond drops, and then crested with a hanging cedar that waves like a warrior's plume — now receding and sloping, and mantled with moss and fern, or sending out from their clefts, sturdy trees — sylvan sentinels on nature's battlements. In one place the rocks recede and are concave, and the river appears like an imprisoned lake, or a magician's well, there,...
Pàgina 62 - He then adverted to the testimony of the child, and asked if it were credible that the father should be the corrupter of his son — the destroyer of his innocence ? All these and other arguments were urged at length, and so ably, that when the counsel finished, the current seemed to have set in Mr. Carroll's favor. Animated whispers of encouragement were heard from his friends, and Rider, who had hitherto been forward and officious, was quite silent and crestfallen, and slunk away as far as possible...
Pàgina 36 - When just is seized some valued prize, And duties press, and tender ties Forbid the soul from earth to rise, — How awful then it is to die ! When, one by one, those ties are torn, And friend from friend is snatched forlorn, And man is left alone to mourn, — Ah then, how easy 'tis to die!