Matilda: A Tale of the Day ...H. Colburn, 1825 - 307 páginas |
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... course was for a moment impeded by a brilliant equipage , which , after swinging against the curbstone , past several doors , stopped with a sudden jerk at that of a splen- did mansion , just before he arrived at the same point . The ...
... course was for a moment impeded by a brilliant equipage , which , after swinging against the curbstone , past several doors , stopped with a sudden jerk at that of a splen- did mansion , just before he arrived at the same point . The ...
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... course , as always happens , they got next each other ; and were so occupied in showing that they did not mind it , that they could think of nothing else . But there is nothing so pro- verbially unlucky as the lottery of a dinner ...
... course , as always happens , they got next each other ; and were so occupied in showing that they did not mind it , that they could think of nothing else . But there is nothing so pro- verbially unlucky as the lottery of a dinner ...
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... " Jem ! " Jem , who thought that of course they had stopped for him , came grinning up , and was marvellously disappoint- ed , when he was only sent back for a book . With such a messenger at such a time it need hardly MATILDA . 69.
... " Jem ! " Jem , who thought that of course they had stopped for him , came grinning up , and was marvellously disappoint- ed , when he was only sent back for a book . With such a messenger at such a time it need hardly MATILDA . 69.
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... obtrusive disposition ; it cannot satisfy itself with the possession of the outward advantages of wealth , for those are shared by the constant succession of needy spendthrifts , who , each in the course of MATILDA . 87.
... obtrusive disposition ; it cannot satisfy itself with the possession of the outward advantages of wealth , for those are shared by the constant succession of needy spendthrifts , who , each in the course of MATILDA . 87.
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... course of his ephemeral existence , make as much outward show . It is only , therefore , by an ostentatious and overbear- ing manner in society , that the purse - proud man can succeed in his object of making himself disagreeable ...
... course of his ephemeral existence , make as much outward show . It is only , therefore , by an ostentatious and overbear- ing manner in society , that the purse - proud man can succeed in his object of making himself disagreeable ...
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acquaintance admiration anxious appearance arrived Augustus Arlingford Baronet beauty Boodle's Boulby brother carriage CHAPTER character charm Cheshire circumstances Colonel Canteen conceal connexion daugh daughter dear Delaval Park dinner door Dornton doubtful duties Eatington Emily endeavoured England English excited eyes favourable feelings felt female Geneva Genoa hand happiness Harry Wordsworth hear heard heart heroine Hobson family induced intimacy Italy knew La Scala Laceby Lady Ma Lady Matilda Lady Ormsby length light sail look Lord George Lord Ormsby Lord Wakefield manner Mechlin ment Milan mind Miss Anne Miss Hobson morning mother Naples never old Hobson once Ormsby's party passed Penryn person pleasure present recollection rendered replied Rome Santelmo seemed Simperton Sir James Sir James's situation society soon spirit sure Sydney thing thought tilda tion Tom Fool tone turned villa whilst wonder Woodhead young
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Página 268 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 148 - That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, ( Stealing and giving odour !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
Página 206 - Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down...
Página 46 - Hobson was not at the time objected to. He was a steady, calculating foreman, in a large manufactory at Manchester. This situation he had gradually improved into that of a master of foremen ; and his small back lodging he had changed into the largest extent of staring brick front in Manchester. Mrs. Hobson, at the time of her marriage, was a silly, showy, bustling, chattering little body ; with a brisk figure, and brisker tongue, good humoured, illiterate, and vulgar.
Página 47 - Jemima, was at that becoming age when young ladies' hair is neither long nor short. As to the conversation of these Manchester graces, — being in considerable awe of a person of whom the Morning Post said so much as it did of Lady Matilda, they confined that to occasional verbal corrections of their mother's slip-slop, which their boarding school education fully qualified them to give.
Página 13 - ... circle, seemed anxiously to solicit a protecting nod from those around him, confirmative of the acquaintance he hoped he had made. Then came the wellestablished man of the world, who seemed carelessly to postpone the duties of recognition, till dinner and lights afforded him a more convenient opportunity of doing so. To him succeeded the 'cidevant jeune homme,' whose 'way of life is fall'n into the sear — the yellow leaf...
Página 1 - Raise me a little higher in my bed. — Blush I not, brother Acton ? Blush I not, Sir Charles ? Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek ? Is not my crime there ? Tell me, gentlemen.
Página 36 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 48 - I'm sure Jem couldn't have done better." She then broke at once into the subject now always uppermost in her thoughts ; namely, the extraordinary circumstance of being actually about to go abroad. " Well/' said she, " I hope that we shall all live as one family in foreign parts. To think of my going trapesing out of Old England! but my daughters must have the same advantages as the Miss Tomkins's, though they did make old Tomkins a knight the other day. But an't my brother a baronet ? to say nothing...