Temple Bar, Volumen105George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1895 |
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Abigail Aldis answer Arthur Montague Starr asked beautiful believe Byrom called Clarence Colonel daughter dear death delightful door Duchess of Wellington Eaton Square Edgeworth Edgeworthstown Euphemia eyes face father feel girl give Gratian hand Harry head hear heard heart Ile de Sein Jack John Elliot KEMBLE knew Lady Bramshill Lady Oscar Landor laugh letter light live Lockhart London look Lord Lowestoft Madame Madame de Sévigné Mahanaddy Maria Maria Edgeworth married mind Miss Claude Miss de Laury Miss Moldova morning mother never night once passed pleasant pretty replies Richard Lovell Edgeworth round Ruthine seemed SELINA sitting smile Street suppose sure talk tell Theodora things thought Thurton told turned voice walk wife wish woman WOODBRIDGE words write wrote young
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Página 263 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Página 246 - What are we each of us but—' an infant crying in the night, and with no language but a cry.
Página 428 - Down on your knees, you rogue, for here ' Vanity Fair ' was penned ! And I will go down with you, for I have a high opinion of that little production myself.
Página 420 - The palace exists no more than the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. It is but a name now. Where be the sentries who used to salute as the royal chariots drove in and out?
Página 259 - We may enjoy the present while we are insensible of infirmity and decay: but the present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Página 346 - Her face was pale and thin, her features irregular; they may have been considered plain, even in youth, but her expression was so benevolent, her manners were so perfectly well-bred, partaking of English dignity and Irish frankness, that one never thought of her with reference either to beauty or plainness. She ever occupied, without claiming attention, charming continually by her singularly pleasant voice, while the earnestness and truth that beamed from her bright blue — very blue — eyes increased...
Página 41 - Copperfield, which came to an end last night because I would not let my Reader read the last Chapter. What a touch when Peggotty— the man — at last finds the lost Girl, and — throws a handkerchief over her face when he takes her to his arms — never to leave her ! I maintain it — a little Shakespeare — a Cockney Shakespeare, if you will : but as distinct, if not so great, a piece of pure Genius as was born in Stratford. Oh, I am quite sure of that, had I to choose but one of them, I would...
Página 259 - There is, however, no funeral so sad to follow as the funeral of our own youth, which we have been pampering with fond desires, ambitious hopes, and all the bright berries that hang in poisonous clusters over the path of life.
Página 338 - I am delighted with the prospect of seeing Miss Edgeworth, and making her personal acquaintance. I expect her to be just what you describe, a being totally void of affectation, and who, like one other lady of my acquaintance, carries her literary reputation as freely and easily as the milk-maid in my country does the leglen, which she carries on hei head, and walks as gracefully with it as a duchess.
Página 328 - Here, my dear Aunt, I was interrupted in a manner that will surprise you as much as it surprised me, by the coming in of Monsieur Edelcrantz, a Swedish gentleman, whom we have mentioned to you, of superior understanding and mild manners; he came to offer me his hand and heart!! 'My heart, you may suppose, cannot return his attachment, for I have seen but...