Eugene Aram: A Tale, Volume 2Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1832 |
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Pagina 25
... present to include in the number of probabilities . Had his father been seized with a mortal illness on the road , was it not likely that he would , in the remorse occasioned in the hardiest by approach- ing death , have written to his ...
... present to include in the number of probabilities . Had his father been seized with a mortal illness on the road , was it not likely that he would , in the remorse occasioned in the hardiest by approach- ing death , have written to his ...
Pagina 28
... present may occur ; and per- haps , also , Corporal Bunting , as well as Melrose Abbey , may seem a yet more interesting picture when viewed by the pale moonlight . The Corporal then wore on his head a small cocked hat , which had ...
... present may occur ; and per- haps , also , Corporal Bunting , as well as Melrose Abbey , may seem a yet more interesting picture when viewed by the pale moonlight . The Corporal then wore on his head a small cocked hat , which had ...
Pagina 49
... present day , seemed to have been cut down the very steepest part of its centre ; loose stones , and deep ruts encreased the difficulty of the descent , and it was with a slow pace and a guarded rein that both our travellers now ...
... present day , seemed to have been cut down the very steepest part of its centre ; loose stones , and deep ruts encreased the difficulty of the descent , and it was with a slow pace and a guarded rein that both our travellers now ...
Pagina 50
... present instant , by a most violent stumble on the part of his hard - mouthed , Roman- nosed horse . The horse was all but down , and the Corporal all but over . " Damn it , " said the Corporal , slowly recover- ing his perpendicularity ...
... present instant , by a most violent stumble on the part of his hard - mouthed , Roman- nosed horse . The horse was all but down , and the Corporal all but over . " Damn it , " said the Corporal , slowly recover- ing his perpendicularity ...
Pagina 57
... present ? " Madeline pressed Aram's arm , and looked up fearfully in his face . " Why , my good friend , " said he to Dealtry , " robbers will have little to gain in my house , unless they are given to learned pursuits . It would be ...
... present ? " Madeline pressed Aram's arm , and looked up fearfully in his face . " Why , my good friend , " said he to Dealtry , " robbers will have little to gain in my house , unless they are given to learned pursuits . It would be ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
66 Augh afore alarm answered Aram Aram's beautiful better breast breath Bunting calm cataract cheat Clarke Colonel Corporal Corporal's Courtland creturs cried dark Darkmans dear dearest door Dorset Street dread Ellinor Elmore Eugene Aram eyes fancy father favour fear feel felt GIL BLAS gout Grassdale half hand happiness hear heard heart Heaven honour hope horse Houseman hypochondriac India Jacobina Knaresborough lady larned laughing Lester light live look Lord Madeline Madeline's marriage master melancholy mind nature never night once passion paused perhaps Pertinax Fillgrave Peter Dealtry pistol poor portunity Psalms racter replied rest robbers round scene seemed smile solemn soul specting spot Squire step stood strange stranger Student tell thing thought to-morrow town uncle utter village voice walk Walter window word Yorkshire young younker
Populaire passages
Pagina 303 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Pagina 86 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Pagina 223 - After all," said Walter aloud, "the scholar was right — there is nothing like the country! " Oh, happiness of sweet retired content, To be at once secure and innocent!" " Be them verses in the Psalms, sir ? " said the corporal, who was close behind. " No, Bunting; but they were written by one who, if I recollect right, set the Psalms to verse.* I hope they meet with your approbation ? " " Indeed, sir, and no — since they ben't in the Psalms.
Pagina 302 - Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight, Through utter and through middle darkness borne...
Pagina 238 - Indeed, Mr. Elmore, I cannot tell ; I did not boil them." " Sir," said Elmore, turning to his guest, " I do not know whether you will agree with me, but I think a slight tendency to gourmandism is absolutely necessary to complete the character of a truly classical mind. So many beautiful touches are there in the ancient poets, so many delicate allusions in history and in anecdote relating to the gratification of the palate, that if a man have no correspondent sympathy with the illustrious epicures...
Pagina 282 - ... is selfishness ; and of all characters, the thorough selfish one is the least forward in taking party. The men of this sort are, in this respect, true men of moderation. They are secure of their temper, and possess themselves too well to be in danger of entering warmly into any cause, or engaging deeply with any side or faction.
Pagina 293 - Arousing himself from his short and sombre reverie, Aram resumed his way, and threading some of the smaller streets on the opposite side of the water, arrived at last in the street in which he was to seek Houseman.
Pagina 119 - there's a great deal to be said on both sides of the question.
Pagina 302 - TIS late and cold; stir up the fire; -*- Sit close, and draw the table nigher; Be merry, and drink wine that's old, A hearty medicine 'gainst a cold : Your beds of wanton down the best, Where you shall tumble to your rest; I could wish you wenches too, But I am dead, and cannot do. Call for the best the house may ring, Sack, white, and claret, let them bring, And drink apace, while breath you have; You'll find but cold drink in the grave : Plover...
Pagina 207 - This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company, but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man, who is usually called a well-bred fine gentleman. To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest, worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account...