Matilda: A Tale of the Day ...H. Colburn, 1825 - 307 páginas |
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... Young men about town . " Very unlucky , my father wanting the carriage afterwards , " said Lord George . " I do so hate to be early . The half - hour introduction to a dinner , like the preface to a book , should always be skipped ...
... Young men about town . " Very unlucky , my father wanting the carriage afterwards , " said Lord George . " I do so hate to be early . The half - hour introduction to a dinner , like the preface to a book , should always be skipped ...
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... young men about town , " as they ascended the car- peted stairs - about to expiate the offence of such unnatural prematurity of arrival ; and the deserts of Arabia would hardly have appeared more awful in their eyes , than did the ...
... young men about town , " as they ascended the car- peted stairs - about to expiate the offence of such unnatural prematurity of arrival ; and the deserts of Arabia would hardly have appeared more awful in their eyes , than did the ...
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... young ladies ' idea of being " quite the thing , " consisting in nothing so much as pre - eminent unpunctuality . The stranger bowed slightly to the duchess as she passed to his end of the room , which she answered with an inquiring ...
... young ladies ' idea of being " quite the thing , " consisting in nothing so much as pre - eminent unpunctuality . The stranger bowed slightly to the duchess as she passed to his end of the room , which she answered with an inquiring ...
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... young beaux , and our old duchess , to see , that whilst they themselves were casually recognized , the whole of the attention of both host and hostess was directed to the stranger ! As the arrival of fresh company made the conver ...
... young beaux , and our old duchess , to see , that whilst they themselves were casually recognized , the whole of the attention of both host and hostess was directed to the stranger ! As the arrival of fresh company made the conver ...
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... young man ap- peared , all the oracles declared that he had a look of Arlingford ; " and this was the man whom they had voted an awkward actor , a squab singer , or a methodist parson . From this time the cannonade at the street door ...
... young man ap- peared , all the oracles declared that he had a look of Arlingford ; " and this was the man whom they had voted an awkward actor , a squab singer , or a methodist parson . From this time the cannonade at the street door ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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...