Walter Langley, or The race of life, Band 3;Band 53 |
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Academia agitation answer BLACKETT'S STANDARD LIBRARY boat brother Captain Bumpstead Casa Parete chief mate Cockle Colonel Langley continued cousin cried dear dearest duel Earl of Forestdale ejaculated evident ex-comedian excellent exclaimed eyes father feel fellow felt Frederick Gattey gentleman Gibraltar give hand happy hastened heard heart honour hour HURST AND BLACKETT'S illegitimate imagine inquired JEANNE D'ALBRET John Halifax JULIA KAVANAGH Langley's late letter look Lord Forestdale Lord Woodmount Macpherson manner MARGARET MAITLAND Maria Gattey marriage mean Melford ment mind morning mother Naples never noble nobleman notwithstanding observed once papers pardon Paulina Peerage perceived person perusal poor port pray present quadrille rector returned sail Sam Slick Saucy Jane ship skipper soon speak St Ives steward thought tion title and estates tone uttered vessel voice Walter Lang Walter Langley wife wish words wretch young girl
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Seite 110 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 111 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 111 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Seite 195 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 125 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Seite 305 - This is a very good and a very interesting work. It is designed to trace the career from boyhood to age of a perfect man— a Christian gentleman, and it abounds in incident both well and highly wrought. Throughout it is conceived in a high spirit, and written with great ability. Thisdu-ap and handsome new edition is worthy to pass freely from hand to hand as a gift book in many households.
Seite 177 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Seite 181 - It is the very error of the moon ; She comes more near the earth than she was wont ; And makes men mad.