Squire Silchester's Whim, Volumen1H.S. King & Company, 1873 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
Página 18
... hands , their mother thought it time they should learn their alphabet . She opened the subject to the Squire . 66 · Alphabet ! " he exclaimed . " My dear Joan , they shall learn nothing of the kind . It would be absurd to teach children ...
... hands , their mother thought it time they should learn their alphabet . She opened the subject to the Squire . 66 · Alphabet ! " he exclaimed . " My dear Joan , they shall learn nothing of the kind . It would be absurd to teach children ...
Página 33
... hand to the long rows of nobly bound books care- fully preserved behind glass . Russia and vellum and morocco had not been spared ; there were finest editions of the most illustrious presses . " When you are in Rome , " said the Squire ...
... hand to the long rows of nobly bound books care- fully preserved behind glass . Russia and vellum and morocco had not been spared ; there were finest editions of the most illustrious presses . " When you are in Rome , " said the Squire ...
Página 46
... had furnished it second - hand , and tried to attract visitors by advertising in the Times the beauty and salubrity of the situation , and the perfect accommodation ; but he did not take much by it 46 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
... had furnished it second - hand , and tried to attract visitors by advertising in the Times the beauty and salubrity of the situation , and the perfect accommodation ; but he did not take much by it 46 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
Página 91
... hands of a great poet , is capable of music as various as any language of which I have knowledge . I should like you to be a poet , Silvester , but I don't want you to be a poetaster . Milton defines true poetry as ' simple , sensuous ...
... hands of a great poet , is capable of music as various as any language of which I have knowledge . I should like you to be a poet , Silvester , but I don't want you to be a poetaster . Milton defines true poetry as ' simple , sensuous ...
Página 92
... a pedant in rhythm , for want of ear . Byron , on the other hand , with true rhythmical capacity , sinned from sheer ignorance . He had no lite- rature . In Childe Harold he always bisects his Alexandrines 92 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
... a pedant in rhythm , for want of ear . Byron , on the other hand , with true rhythmical capacity , sinned from sheer ignorance . He had no lite- rature . In Childe Harold he always bisects his Alexandrines 92 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
afraid alphabet amused archæologist Arius Author beauty boat chester child church Cornhill cottage Crown 8vo daughter dear Demy 8vo dine dinner Doctor Donald dream Edition English Ermyn exclaimed Extremes meet eyes fancy father Fcap fellow gentleman Hathor Heigh-ho Illustrated JEAN INGELOW John Silchester Joseph of Arimathea knew laughed little girl London looked Louisa Saint Madame Simonet maid maiden ladies married Mary Clymo Miss Saint Osyth Miss Silvia morning MORTIMER COLLINS Mount St Musical Willie Nairn never Nicholas niece obey panther Papa parson Paternoster Row pleasant POEMS poet poetic pretty Prof Rector replied Restormel romance Rosicrucian sermons Silchester's Silvester song Squire Silchester Squire's Sterne story talk teach tell things thought took Translated uncle verse village vols Völund WALTER BAGEHOT Walter Nugent wife Willie's wine wise wish woman write young ladies
Pasajes populares
Página 259 - Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Página 61 - Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 251 - WARTENSLEBEN (Count H. von). The Operations of the South Army in January and February, 1871. Compiled from the Official War Documents of the Head-quarters of the Southern Army. Translated by Colonel CH von Wright. With Maps. Demy 8vo.
Página 250 - Vera." 2 vols. Fifth Edition. Cloth, gilt tops, I2j. *„* Also a Cheaper Edition in i vol. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BLU ME (Major W.). The Operations of the German Armies in France, from Sedan to the end of the war of 187071. With Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff. Translated by the late EM Jones, Maj.
Página 244 - MA Missionary Enterprise in the East. With special reference to the Syrian Christians of Malabar, and the results of modern Missions. With Four Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
Página 256 - Crown 8vo. 3-f. 6d. *'The author of these verses has written a very touching story of the human heart in the story he tells with such pathos and power, of an affection cherished so long and so secretly. . . . It is not the least merit of these pages that they are everywhere illumined with moral and religious sentiment suggested, not paraded, of the brightest, purest character."— Standard.
Página 256 - Abounding in quiet humour, in bright fancy, in sweetness and melody of expression, and, at times, in the tenderest touches of pathos. " — Graphic. '*Mr. Collins has an undercurrent of chivalry and romance beneath the trifling vein of good-humoured banter which is the special characteristic of his verse.
Página 2 - Volumes. Prof. W. KINGDON CLIFFORD, MA The First Principles of the Exact Sciences explained to the Non-mathematical. Prof. TH HUXLEY, LL.D., FRS Bodily Motion and Consciousness.
Página 241 - FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children. With 300 Engravings, New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 247 - Spitzbergen — The Gateway to the Polynia ; or, A Voyage to Spitzbergen. With numerous Illustrations by Whymper and others, and Map. New and Cheaper Edition. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. WETMORE(WS). Commercial Telegraphic Code. Second Edition. Post 410. Boards, price 42$. What 'tis to Love. By the Author of " Flora Adair,