New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volumen3C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... person , and with Miss Gubbins ( who was quite invaluable ) brought them on de- lightfully . " I shall be charmed , ma'am , " said the colonel , heaving a sigh . And accordingly , the child stood up at his side , and began that ...
... person , and with Miss Gubbins ( who was quite invaluable ) brought them on de- lightfully . " I shall be charmed , ma'am , " said the colonel , heaving a sigh . And accordingly , the child stood up at his side , and began that ...
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... person and the speakers . At length Caleb , with a trembling hand , undid the bars , opened the heavy door , and stood before them , exhibiting his thin gray hairs , bald fore- head , and sharp high features , illuminated by a quivering ...
... person and the speakers . At length Caleb , with a trembling hand , undid the bars , opened the heavy door , and stood before them , exhibiting his thin gray hairs , bald fore- head , and sharp high features , illuminated by a quivering ...
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... persons and things , that he rubs off a little of the gilding , and is surcharged with a sort of second- hand , vapid , tingling , troublesome self - import- ance . His personal vanity is thus continually flattered and perked into ...
... persons and things , that he rubs off a little of the gilding , and is surcharged with a sort of second- hand , vapid , tingling , troublesome self - import- ance . His personal vanity is thus continually flattered and perked into ...
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... person , remains satisfied with the assumption of merits , so much the more unquestionable as they are not his own ; and from being dazzled with noise and show and appearances , is less capable of giving a real opi- nion , or entering ...
... person , remains satisfied with the assumption of merits , so much the more unquestionable as they are not his own ; and from being dazzled with noise and show and appearances , is less capable of giving a real opi- nion , or entering ...
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... person swells out and expands into ideal importance and borrowed magnitude . He resides in a garret or in a two pair of stairs ' back room ; yet he talks of the magnificence of London , and gives himself airs of consequence upon it , as ...
... person swells out and expands into ideal importance and borrowed magnitude . He resides in a garret or in a two pair of stairs ' back room ; yet he talks of the magnificence of London , and gives himself airs of consequence upon it , as ...
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Página 368 - From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides ; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire.
Página 368 - ... the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman Empire. The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections; the skilful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science; but, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood and horror and confusion: nor shall I strive, at the distance of three centuries and a thousand miles, to delineate a scene of which there could be no spectators, and...
Página 218 - The Arnaouts, or Albanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance to the Highlanders of Scotland, in dress, figure, and manner of living. Their very mountains seemed Caledonian, with a kinder climate. The kilt, though white ; the spare, active form ; their dialect, Celtic in its sound, and their hardy habits, all carried me back to Mprven.
Página 174 - Twiller,—a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting...
Página 289 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 169 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By...
Página 361 - It was at an old lady's, a relation and godmother of mine, where a particular incident occasioned my being left during the vacation of two successive seasons. Her house was formed out of the remains of an old Gothic castle, of which one tower was still almost entire ; it was tenanted by kindly daws and swallows. Beneath, in a modernized part of the building, resided the mistress of the mansion. The house was skirted with a few majestic elms and beeches, and the stumps of several others showed, that...
Página 174 - Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament ; and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of every thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple.
Página 173 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it: wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders.
Página 367 - The common impulse drove them onwards to the walls, the most audacious to climb were instantly precipitated ; and not a dart, not a bullet of the Christians, was idly wasted on the accumulated throng. But their strength and ammunition were exhausted in this laborious defence: the ditch was...